Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shull brothers looking at a kymograph. You have erred in the captioning of this. The one using the apparatus is a Government botanist (J. M. Shull) as you said, but the other, Dr. G. H. Shull, is not a geneticist from the U. of Michigan but is instead a plant geneticist of Princeton University...
...easy to see how you made this mistake since the four brothers were present at the Atlantic City convention. The other two are Dr. A. F. Shull, an animal geneticist, and Dr. C. A. Shull, a plant physiologist of Chicago University. (Dr. A. F. Shull is the geneticist of the University of Michigan...
...mass meeting at which John Lewis and other strike leaders were truculently abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed Cadillac plant. In Saginaw, where anti-strike temper was described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring...
...Lewis was not only pleased to have that threat removed but also pleased because it strengthened his hand against General Motors, which will now have to watch its competitors get business while its plants are shut down. Far from resting on its arms, G. M. continued to cultivate with spirit and shrewdness the public sympathy drawn to it by: 1) its reasonableness in offering to negotiate any issue when the strikers should cease their "unlawful occupation" of its plants; 2) the plight of non-union workers unwillingly deprived of work & pay. In Manhattan, President Sloan issued a vigorous statement rehearsing...
...VISUAL record of what happens when a blade of wheat grows has been made in this remarkable series of photographs taken by O. T. Bennett, an associate in plant breeding at, the University, of Illionois...