Word: planting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally such an offer was not sneezed at by the heads of a State both young and poor. With wily tact the Motor Man then and there employed several hundred Chinese at his Detroit works. By the time they are fully trained a new Ford assembling plant will be ready to receive them at Shanghai...
...Schwab, who went to St. Francis College, and Tireman Firestone, who went to business college, none of the group progressed beyond a public high school education. Most of the eight have been powers in their particular fields, have now forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world's most exhaustive and interesting experiment in mechanistic production. Establishing a plantation in Liberia, Tiremaker Firestone attempts to readjust the world's rubber economics. As head of Sears Roebuck & Co., Julius Rosenwald directs a merchandising policy which threatens to bring many...
...calculated to approximate the total cost. Last year the largest reserve budget, next to that of the College, was set aside for the maintenance of the Business School, the sum amounting to $38,600. Next to that in the descending scale of upkeep expenditures came the Medical School plant with $22,500.; the University buildings--University Hall, Lehman Hall, and other non-departmental structures--with $9900., and the Athletic Association with...
ITALY Progress Oil lamps were replaced by electric, last week, in the rural chateau of His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele at St. Anna Di Valdieri in Northern Italy. Admittedly this belated progress was due to the new local Fascist Mayor, Signer Cavalliero Porta, who caused a hydro-electric power plant to be installed within three months after his inauguration. Last week bulbs glowed in the Royal Chateau for the first time when a gold and ivory button was touched by Their Majesties' eldest spinster daughter, Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria di Savoia, 21, often mentioned as a possible...
George Bancroft is as good a heavy as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Von Sternberg is as good a director as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. Baclanova is as good a Russian hot house plant as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time. "The Docks of New York" is as good an underworld picture as the motion picture industry has produced in quite some time...