Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently I am teaching his hens how to lay more eggs, promoting and installing a "quick-freezing" plant, making myself generally useful around the plantation and its office, and attempting to design a refinement for his alfalfa dehydrator. Twelve to 15 hours a day. seven days a week, each packed to the utmost with interesting activity...
During the past three years. Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
...which apparently has the elasticity rayon has always lacked (TIME, Oct. 3), chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...
Once when Fairchild was plant-hunting in the tropics, he was laid low by an infection, almost died. Two of his associates, who realized that he might have taken to his grave the rich story of his experiences, took him back to the U. S., plumped him down on a quiet New Jersey farm, furnished him with a stenographer...
...Bordeaux mixture is so named because the French vine-growers of the Bordeaux region used to spray their plants with copper sulphate and lime-not as a plant medicine but as a deterrent to thieves. An alert viticulturist named Millardet discovered that vines so sprayed were not attacked by downy mildew. David Fairchild and an associate were the first to try out Bordeaux mixture with success on Virginia vineyards...