Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentrating on the 'hoppers, however, were WPA, CCC, State highway crews, and of course the farmers. The U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The Bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels...
Great is the name of Maytag in Jasper County, Ia. In Newton, the county seat, is Maytag Co's 14-acre plant, where last year some 1,500 workers turned out $16,984,966.28 worth of Maytag washing machines. In Newton, too, is many another reason why the memory of the late Frederick Louis Maytag still is green. Newton's 11,500 residents get their water from a Maytag-built system, their electricity from a plant which he established. They play in a $450,000 Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office...
That contract having expired, and President Maytag having displeased his workers with a 10% wage cut, the company has been deep in labor trouble since May, was in deeper than ever last week. And so were the union and all Newton. After persuading 350 sit-inners to surrender the plant, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proposed that they accept the cut and return to work, was promptly turned down by the union. At that, Newton officialdom and business went into action. Businessmen asked Sheriff Earl Shields to recruit 1,000 deputies, encouraged a back-to-work movement which...
...were the first sign of life in the capital market since U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 bond issue last month (TIME, June 13). Whereas Big Steel's big issue was to finance plans laid some time ago, Standard's will be spent largely on plant expansion planned since Depression II got under...
...landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans. The boys went to work: Alex in charge of the power plant; Grant in charge of one mine; Con of another...