Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's new indoor athletic plant continues to rise apace, yet no one knows whose munificent generosity has made possible the construction of this latest addition to the University's ever-increasing athletic facilities. Not even Mr. Bingham, the Director of Athletics who has launched and conducted the campaign for the new plant, knows the whole source of the necessary funds...
...historical background of the rising University indoor athletic plant is interesting to say the least. It was back in 1914 that the Harvard undergraduates first brought to light the necessity of a gymnasium more modern than Hemenway. At that time they launched a drive for funds for a new building. Some $8,000 were collected, but the University authorities soon put a stop to such activities with the declaration that Harvard had a greater need for academic building development. The question was virtually dropped for more than a decade, but then Harvard's crying need once again broke into...
...high in the backbone of the Sierra Madre, breathing acrid vapors against the blue Guatemalan sky. Never since the eruption of 1902 has it done much more than that. Planters grew used to the rumblings of Holy Mary, dug through the sterile crust of lava on her flanks to plant coffee bushes in the rich soil beneath. In recent years aviators have used the white plume from her crater as a beacon. Ten days ago Pilot D. G. Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American Airways, flying north on his regular trip from Guatemala to Mexico, swung...
...Mexico City, last week, 300 employes of the Ford assembling plant went on strike. Reason: Desire for union recognition. No other strike has ever occurred in a Ford concern...
Like a great pumping plant is the U. S. Postal service, pumping current periodicals from the country's publishing reservoirs to individual subscribers. Inevitably a certain amount of the flow is impeded in transit by obsolete or illegible addresses, torn wrappers, clerical stupidity. Undelivered copies of national magazines back up in central post offices like windfalls at a beaverdam. Lately the Post Office Department has authorized postmasters to sell off windfall magazines at public auction...