Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear-gas attack on their union headquarters, strikers attacked a gas machine plant where 150 deputy sheriffs were encamped. They overturned automobiles, set fire to one police car and dumped another into the river, did $15,000 damage to the plant. A truck drivers' strike cut off Boston's fuel supply for two days; 1,000 Hershey chocolate workers staged...
...cottages. He went on paying low wages, giving away $100 bills, warning his employes never to marry, in general behaving with the gruffness expected of him. Last January, after two years of bitter wrangling with the village of Saranac Lake which has threatened to put up a municipal power plant, crotchety Phelps Smith was suddenly stricken with pleural pneumonia and died...
...medicine, a liberal arts college with some 2,000 undergraduates. Residents of Louisville have attended the college tuition-free since the city replaced its annual grants to the University with a 5? levy on each $100 worth of taxable property. In 1931 President Kent supplemented his plant by opening a separate free college for Louisville's Negroes a mile from the main campus. Although Louisville is coeducational, grey-haired, able lowan Kent, who gets $15,000 a year, sends his own daughter Constance to Vassar...
...quantity of oxygen sold in 1936 exceeded that of any previous year. . . . More motorists bought 'Eveready Prestone' antifreeze. . . . Alloy sales to the steel industry exceeded in volume those of any previous year." Also noted with pride by President Ricks was that $20,000,000 worth of new plant construction in 1936 had been financed out of current assets. Up 68% was installment buying which accounts for one-fifth of Sears' business...
...experience of other colleges in the East points to the conclusion that debating, like so many things, begins at home, and not until the Council directs its appeal to the talent which lies now dormant in the various Houses can the Debating Council hope to plant deep roots in the soil of the college. It may be pleasant to suck the honeyed nectar of applause from local Junior Leagues from time to time, but only from audiences of Harvard students can come the support which the Council needs. It the Council should aim its rays at this untapped source...