Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Akron was giving the country an object lesson in Labor maturity, New Jersey last week displayed a rampant example of freshman unionism. On petition of some 500 non-union employes, its officials decided to reopen the Thermoid Rubber Co. plant near Trenton, closed since April 8 by a strike of United Rubber Workers. Returning workers were hooted and stoned by picketers, and when they sent out the first truckload of their products, the strikers tossed more rocks to stop it. Returning tear-gas bombs, police charged into battle. The scuffle stopped when the truck retreated into the plant...
...months prior, had dismissed her because she was trying to unionize the employes, Mrs. Rhatigan began an organization campaign which culminated in March when 200 cooks, dishwashers, laundresses, electricians, slop women and orderlies put on a sit-down strike in the hospital's kitchens, pantries and ice plant. Babies cried because their wet diapers were not changed. Doctors and nurses were obliged to go to public restaurants for their meals. After eight hours, police broke up the strike by throwing the help in jail following a stiff scrimmage...
...nation's history, according to Ortega, consists of a period of amalgamation and a period of disintegration. Spain has been disintegrating since 1580, when Philip II conquered Portugal. If the process of history could be telescoped like the cinema of a growing plant, "the history of Spain takes on the clear expressiveness of a gesture, and the modern incidents with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today...
...flowers are her children and, every time one kneels to kiss her, new flowers come up. But no one really knows. Yet it is quite possible, for there are many different flowers there: Roses, Honeysuckles, Water Lilies; yes, and poison Ivy--perhaps for the tyrant Dionysius--and a catcus plant...
Available evidence previous to this find indicated that plant life emerged from the water first in the Uppermost Silurian period, almost 300,000,000 years...