Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raiser Tamblyn points out that since 1932 the U. S. national income has gained 33.9%, while private educational income has dropped 28.5%. Since 1934, educational income has recovered just ½%. To articulate the extent to which Depression has damaged the nation's $3,000,000,000 private educational plant, Mr. Tamblyn quotes from a U. S. Office of Education survey of 588 private secondary schools and colleges. While average expenditures between 1929 and 1935 dropped from $417,983 to $346,572, average total income fell even further, from $476,200 to $297,603. The average U. S. private school...
Anthony Grzebyk is the biggest man in the Plymouth automobile plant in Detroit. He stands 6 ft. 4½in., weighs 300 lb., measures 48 in. around the waist. His towering bulk, his stolid face are familiar to nearly every worker under the 22 acres of Plymouth roof. He works on the assembly line in the evening shift, arriving a half-hour early just as the day shift is quitting at 3:30 p. m. To day shift and to evening shift he is known simply as "Big Tony...
...Briggs Manufacturing, his brother Frank at Thompson Products. His brother Stanley is not old enough to work. All the Grzebyks except Peter, who is married, live with their widowed mother in a six-room frame house at No. 5028 Belmont St. That is about two miles from the Plymouth plant, and Big Tony Grzebyk walks it, carrying his supper of three thick sandwiches and a pail of coffee. The Grzebyks (pronounced Gzebbik) are Poles...
Labor into Unions? Not a motor maker but a Labor sympathizer once described Detroit as a "workingman's paradise." Automobile plants are clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time...
...motormen's bitter opposition to union labor. They are too vulnerable to be comfortable. In the autumn of 1933 a tool & die makers' strike tied up most of the industry, many a model at the 1934 show being practically handmade. The strike in the Chevrolet transmission plant in Toledo two years ago temporarily crippled the entire Chevrolet organization. Since that experience General Motors has done what Henry Ford did previously-made sure of at least two sources of supply. The haunting fear of possible famine had something to do with the motor industry's new-found interest...