Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
Shirts On. That night, across the Mississippi river in Newport, Minn., about 200 raiders armed with clubs broke into the Cudahy Packing Co. plant, smashed equipment, turned loose more than 100 squealing pigs, then beat up company guards and maintenance...
Land of Earners. Arvida's other aspect is industrial. The great aluminum plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...
...Administrator Paul G. Hoffman got a mash note from a first-grader back in South Bend (where his Studebaker plant stands). "My daddy is a preacher," said the letter, "and he said if we had more men like you he would not have to preach so hard. I love...
Formerly director of the New York Botanical Gardens, Professor Merrill is an internationally-noted expert in Philippine and Far Eastern plant life. He spent 20 years in the Philippines as a teacher and government botanist, and came to Harvard...