Word: planting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial tactician of the 1924 Y. M. C. A. drive for $3,000,000, ubiquitous figure in all Cleveland drives, onetime national treasurer of the Association, Y-Worker Ramsey...
Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...
Every watcher knew that the great power plant will not be called conventionally, "Unit 27" or "Brunot's Island Plant." but will bear the name of James Hay Reed. Most watchers, city-conscious, remembered smart James Hay Reed as the Pittsburgh lawyer behind the formation of the U. S. Steel Corp. Young Reed had learned his law in two good schools. As a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), he had gone first to the office of his lawyer uncle, famed David Reed of Pittsburgh. Five years of study and he was ready...
Perhaps because he was tired of indignant, cousinly notes, perhaps because he was little interested in journalism, Owner Clark began, last year, to dicker for a sale. He refused $1,600,000. He approved the building of a new mechanical plant, purchase of new presses...
...most colorful of the copper kings. Last summer. Ana conda bought the Clark interests in Mon tana for some $6,000,000. Included was the Butte Miner, personal organ of young; Clark. But Anaconda could not buy Clark's silence. He sent for a complete newspaper plant, founded the Montana Free Press (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda merged the Miner with the Butte edition of the Anaconda Standard to form the Montana Standard. In 96-point headlines, flaming red and frankly unrestrained, Free Press and Standard, Clark and Anaconda, war over Montana politics...