Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the amendments voted by the house were provisions prohibiting coercion of non-striking workers by strikers, and outlawing the sit-down strike as a labor weapon. Another measure adopted granted employers to "petition the NLRB for an election to determine the collective bargaining unit in his plant...
...hearing about TYA from Director David Eli Lilienthal and his aides. Later, the party saw the New Deal's rural electrification projects in Virginia, its Greenbelt resettlement development in Maryland. In the meantime. Lincoln's students had also spent a day looking over a Georgia Power Co. plant at Tallulah Falls, Ga.. listening to the private power companies' side of the Government-v.-private power story...
...method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant...
...Lockheed, proud of its $100,000, 250-m.p.h. ship, is now adding a static balance similar to that on K. L. M.'s to all 14H models. Only eight of this model have so far been delivered (all to Northwest Airlines) but the 5½-acre Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif., just enlarged after a record year's business ($4,750,000), has more than $6,000,000 in unfilled orders...
...While President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel Corp. was engaged in borrowing $50,000,000 last week (see col. 1), his only son, Elaine, was discovered in the student training course in the Aliquippa, Pa. plant of Big Steel's little competitor, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Big, broad-shouldered and 24, Blaine Fairless went to Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes...