Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Groton, Conn., 107 of 1,900 workmen in the plant of Electric Boat Co., manufacturers of submarines for the U. S. Navy, sat down. They passed one day in pleasant converse, whiled away the evening listening to the music of banjo and guitar. Shortly after midnight the plant superintendent appeared at the door and announced: ''All you fellows are fired!" He was followed by 50 State police who arrested all the strikers under warrants for trespassing. The strikers got up with good humor, took their banjo and guitar and marched through the deserted streets to police court. There...
...Santa Monica, Calif. 345 of 5,600 employes of Douglas Aircraft Co. on the third day of a sit-down were indicted for "forcible entry and occupancy" but refused to retreat. Police and sheriff's deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened...
...serious defect then appeared. The sudden load increase nearly overtaxed the Hackensack generators; it was evident that the votes of an audience several times bigger would have wrought havoc with the power plant. Moreover, the broadcasters could not help wondering how many lazy or indifferent listeners had simply not bothered to switch on a bulb, although they were listening to the program...
...Continental is Baltimore's Crown Cork & Seal, No. 1 maker of bottle caps. Last year Crown sold a subsidiary automotive supply business called Detroit Gasket, started to put the proceeds into tin cans. Its production last year was trifling, and even this year after a big new Philadelphia plant is completed, Crown probably will account for no more than 2% of the total U. S. can output. Crown is also developing an aluminum plated can, supposedly cheaper than tin cans, which are sheet steel plated with tin. But Crown's importance at the moment is neither its potential...
...sell for about 2? each. At best it is a hard business to break into because the established can makers and their customers are usually tied together with long-term contracts, often with physical connections. Cans for Campbell soup in Camden, N. J. roll out of an adjoining Continental plant. And a neophyte can maker like Crown can hardly expect to sell its goods on the basis of "service" alone...