Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Nov. 13 issue you quote the Eastern steel people as stating that the President's suggestion of establishing a steel plant on the Pacific Coast "harebrained...
...fracas, what Chrysler executives wanted was a satisfactory new contract with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, whose old agreement had just expired. Chrysler bargained for the lowest possible wage increase, also hoped to defeat union demands for 1) all-union hiring in the corporation's plants; 2) arbitration of plant grievances, 3) a voice in setting production speeds. Only issue finally disposed of last week was the all-union shop (which U.A.W. swapped off for a tentative compromise on arbitration...
Both sides continued to avoid calling the strike a strike. But when 57 Dodge foundry hands (mostly Negroes) went back to work at the Dodge plant, picketing strikers were angered, bricks flew (wounding two policemen and six Chrysler employes), and Mr. Thomas indignantly went through the motions of calling his unionists-who had marched in picket lines for 51 days-out "on strike...
...wide-sweeping racing strip (only 1½-mile track in the U. S.), its picturesque steeplechase course in the infield, its straightaway course (Widener Chute) for wobbly-legged two-year-olds unaccustomed to maneuvering around turns, and its mile training track make it not only the most elaborate racing plant in the U. S. but also ideally suited for classic distance races like the Belmont Stakes (1½ miles), Jockey Club Gold Cup (2 miles), Lawrence Realization (if miles). But, because of its vastness, Belmont has long been unpopular with grandstand spectators, who rarely see anything but the stretch...
...whale's brain was nearly three times as big as the horse's-2,355 grams to 809-and the whale's thyroid was more than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine than young Homo sapiens, breed he ever so artfully...