Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching from the sidewalk. There was snow in the gutters. Small boys had a fine time pelting motorcycle policeman. Much merry horseplay, too, of holding back light cars that were trying to get up the grade to the Botany plant. Officers tried to clear the traffic. They drove their sputtering motorcycles round and round. Women jeered, dingy men guffawed. ... It was a signal the patrolmen had been waiting for. They charged the crowd with their clubs...
...matter connected with the growth and well-being of the U. S." was shipping. He put to the back of his mind the legacy of railroad activities that his dour, nervous father, Edward Henry Harriman,* left him, that he himself trained in. He took interest in a small shipbuilding plant on the Delaware, enlarged it, built concrete shipways. After the War he operated Shipping Board vessels on commission. Coastwise shipping struck him as a good field. He was right. At present transatlantic shipping is unprofitable. Passenger carriers move at a dead loss. Coast trading has been earning so well that...
...complicated name, is studying the financial methods of school systems, the point being that schools are meant to run, like municipal industrial corporations, for the greatest public good at the least public cost. Secretary Hoover himself appeared at another meeting, told his hearers that the country's educational plant is greater than any other plant it operates, warned: "If we were to suppress our educational system for a single generation, we should slip back 4,000 years in human progress...
Burdened with a cold, with a tolerably dull score, and with a story modelled too closely on "Naughty Cinderella", Mitzi played gallantly along, unrewarded by the applause of former years. But although Mitzi's famous love song had given appropriate place to "Plant Roses in Memory's Garden", just another lyric, "Naughty Riquette" was at times as great entertainment as we ever want to see. And the reason for that may be summed up in the two words, Stanley Lupino...
...conditions, principal industries, steel requirements and tariffs of foreign nations. So when in the panic year of 1893 he got his promotion to the general managership, he could go abroad to sell his products. Outside of the U. S. he sold one-half of the 1893 output of his plant, to the wonder of the trade. Then through successive absorptions and mergers the U. S. Steel Corporation was organized in 1901. Mr. Farrell still ranked as the great authority on the steel foreign trade. He became president of the U. S. Steel Products Co., the exporting agent of the parent...