Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most indignant was Breaker Bergoff at what happened to some of his men at Remington Rand's Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn...
...Rand "merely laughed," continued Mr. Bergoff, and explained that everything was fine because he had been inside the plant taking motion pictures of the fracas, which he intended to offer as proof of strikers' violence in seeking an injunction against the strike...
...last month when he was set upon by striking seamen (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week he was quickly entered on the Board's books as a "hostile witness." A strikebreaker for 20 years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman.'' Asked what references he had offered, "Chowderhead" Cohen grunted: "They never ask for no references in this line of work. Tell 'em anything. Tell 'em nuttin'!" Witness Cohen flushed angrily when asked if he had ever been...
Ended by recognition of their United Automobile Workers union last week was a seven-day "sitdown" by 1,100 workers in the big Bendix accessories plant at South Bend, Ind. (TIME, Nov. 30). Same day the Bendix employes went back to work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...
...creature thus celebrated was a 60-ft. plant-feeding dinosaur, tentatively named Atlantosaurus montanus, discovered in Colorado. The verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human...