Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long, 500 ft. high. It will swallow up 9,500,000 cu. yd. of concrete, three...
...than six months. Last week frozen eggs became a fullfledged commodity in the Midwest when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, No. 1 U. S. headquarters for egg speculation, admitted them to spot and future trading.* Almost exclusively a U. S. industry, egg freezing is clone by about 200 companies with plants in the egg belt of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, California, South Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas. Their "breaking season," which corresponds to the laying season for hens in the early spring and summer, began early this year because of unseasonable winter laying (TIME, Feb. 1). Biggest U. S. egg freezers...
Meantime, the Dearborn individualist last week decided to withdraw further into his vast fortress of independence. The Akron Beacon Journal revealed that Ford Motor Co. had ordered $1,000,000 worth of tire-making machinery for a new Ford tire plant at the River Rouge works outside Detroit. Moreover, said the Beacon Journal, that order was only "one of many...
...report, but volunteered the pointed observation that Mr. Ford always liked to match outside production with company-made equipment, if for no other reason than to keep a yardstick on costs. Years ago Henry Ford made some of his own tires, discontinuing production when the new River Rouge plant went into operation in 1923. Since then he has bought about half his tires from his good friend Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from...
...story jumps ahead, like the bumping minute hand of a clock, to 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1918, the present. Familiar figures are suddenly there no more; new ones appear; the passage of time is as apparent as in the cinema of a growing plant. In the last scene the whole family have come together in a big informal party. Eleanor, noted now for her rambling tongue and inability to finish a sentence, is over so. Rose, the baby, is stout and deaf. Milly is as fat as her jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side...