Word: planted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many men the booming aircraft industry (see p. 63) was hiring was anyone's guess, but Glenn L. Martin's Baltimore plant has already taken on 4,000 men in three months...
...started a speculative scramble for all kinds of commodities; the second week saw the scramble spread to capital goods. Yet most materials manufacturers, who will have to buy billions of dollars of new machinery if sustained war business materializes, were still wary about tying cash up in fixed plant except where old machinery would not do. Nor was the export boom, that has been expected ever since the armament race began five years ago, any more evident than in the past. As Cartoonist Herb Block allegorized (see cut), a war boom is not the best foundation for prosperity...
...last week fighting planes for the belligerents still rumbled on test hops over the big Martin plant at Middle River, Md., over the Curtiss plant in Buffalo, over the West Coast factories of Lockheed, Douglas and North American at Los Angeles, Consolidated at San Diego...
...profits from this business will be counted in the future. Its effect on the industry is already apparent. No longer are planes virtually made to order as they were only last year. Every big plant is on a quantity production basis. Glenn Luther Martin's plant at Middle River, Md., got its start with a real automobile-type assembly line with thumping orders of 151 Bio bombers from the Army and 117 more from The Netherlands. North American sold 350 of its BT-9s to the Air Corps and 457 BT-9s and BC-1s (a combat edition...
...Buffalo, N. Y.; at Glendale, Calif.; at Fort Erie, Canada; at Bucharest, Rumania; at Stockholm, Sweden; at Letchworth, England-Irving's 2,000 employes were sewing on silken war orders. Airmen of 45 foreign countries now ride on Irving silk-even the Germans who confiscated an Irving plant and bought its patents three years...