Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over labor difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking his successor, a man who, among other things, must be, as Ed McGrady was, acceptable to and trusted by C.I.O.'s John Lewis...
...Dearborn, Mich., news of the oncoming drive was conveyed to Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's private police chief and spokesman, whose men were accused in a National Labor Relations Board hearing of beating U. A. W. organizers at the Ford plant last May. Said he: "We never made an agreement with the U. A. W. and we never will...
...establish the status quo ante. The New Deal wants to do precisely that-as a matter of fact it is status quo George III or Diocletian. The process has not attained the label of 'liberal.' . . . They are dumdum words used to assassinate men and then to plant bitter onions on their graves...
Five months ago Glenn L. Martin, who is anything but friendly to Pan American Airways since they bought only three of his Clippers, suddenly announced that his booming plant at Baltimore would build a still bigger flying boat for an unnamed company being organized to fly the Atlantic. Who, air men wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean...
Having his head full of many other things, including a sewage disposal plant on the Potomac, Secretary Ickes had his publicity-wise Personal Assistant Harry Slattery write this refusal to Paleobotanist Wieland: ". . . The subject of fossil cycads does not have a broad appeal. . . . The story can be effectively told by a display which, for the present at least, can be housed in the administration building at Wind Cave National Monument, 22 miles distant...