Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's blowup, negotiations had been going on to replace the agreement made between maritime labor and the shipowners after the gory 1934 general strike. That agreement expired Sept. 30, was continued by truces. Spokesman for Labor was Longshoreman Bridges. Spokesman for the shipowners was Chairman Tom G. Plant of the Waterfront Employers' Association. Bridges demanded higher pay, a six-hour day, recognition of the unity of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Chairman Plant demanded that control of hiring halls-the big issue in 1934-be put in neutral hands. Obscuring these prime issues were many other...
...Motormaker Miller now has taken over the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa., where he is experimenting with a small, cheap car to be called the American Bantam...
Scientists have induced a sort of frozen trance in chickens, rabbits, partridges and sea lions by suddenly forcing them into unnatural positions. Many a hunter has watched bird-dog trainers tuck a pigeon's head under its wing, plant it for the dogs to find. Dr. Thoma now believes that this state is probably not hypnosis at all. but a form of cataplexy (fear-rigidity). When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that...
...Swift stock-holders $1,567,000 for their holdings in yards which do 20% of U. S. stockyard business. Mainsprings of new United Stockyards Corp. are Banker John DeWitt and longtime Swift Executive Wesley K. Wright. Mr. Wright will soon move from Swift's plant on the South Side, from which he has managed Swift stockyards for the past 14 years, to Chicago's Board of Trade Building as president of United...
...Relatively limited is the demand for Fairchild's highly-specialized goods and services. Sales of the camera division last year were only $776,000, of the survey division $245,000. Staffed and equipped to turn out almost any kind of precision instrument, Fairchild's Woodside (N. Y.) plant has lately added sound and recording equipment. Lens-making it has never tried, preferring to purchase the types it needs from famed grinders like Bausch & Lomb...