Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director and head...
...Mozart, and striped, angular performances like the Study in Counter Rhythm for Dancers and Percussion Instruments which she put on at the Dell in 1934. In that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under her heels, striped to look like a Mexican century-plant. Ben Stad called on her to dance the slow-moving steps of the Middle Ages at his Philadelphia Festival of the Society of the Ancient Instruments last spring...
Last summer two St. Louis boys decided to enter the field. Little knowing what their luck would be. Robert Urian Jr., 22. and Charles Curry, 23, left for South America. In Peru a guide led them on a chase after chinchillas and they wound up with a plant by the same name. In Lima they ran low on money, so Partner Curry hurried back to the U. S. to recoup. Partner Urian went on to Chile, arrived with only $30. Near Santiago he found a man who had trapped several chinchillas and would sell five. When Partner Curry finally rejoined...
...Sanskrit word for fibre is jhat. In the Indian province of Orissa a tall, reedlike plant called jhut has long been cultivated for its fibre, which is used in making sackcloth and twine. But the best place in India for jute growing is the neighboring province of Bengal, whose alluvial plains between the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers produce at least 85% of the world's crop. Last week while U. S. farmers were harvesting a bumper crop with combines (see p. 15), Bengali farmers with sickles were beginning to cut more than 2,000,000 acres of jute. When...
...burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year made a profit of $1,918,000. In the U. S. jute is one of the big four cordage fibres. Others: hemp, sisal, cotton...