Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from printer's devil to busy banker. The factory at Bradford, Pa. has increased its floor space three times since January and has stepped up production schedule from six a week to 20 a week and is still unable to keep pace with incoming orders. An auxiliary assembly plant operates at Long Beach, Calif, for the benefit of West Coast purchasers. This high-wing, 560-lb. monoplane is powered by a thoroughly proven 40 h. p. Continental Aircraft engine and has a top speed of 87 m. p. h. It lands slower than many people approach arterial stops...
...pestilential coast town of Limon in Costa Rica to build a railroad inland. In ten years he was $1,000,000 in the hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Co. to form United Fruit, then went north to develop International Railways...
Henry Ford began investigating the beans in 1930, spent more than $1,000,000 in the next few years growing them, finding out how they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...
...Bosch birthday is practically a municipal holiday. Last week in the best Nazi style his workers gave him a monster mass reception, which the aging tycoon thoroughly enjoyed. Vigorous, he still takes an active interest in company affairs, can still be seen almost any day trotting about his huge plant, can still climb 6,000 feet for a shot at a chamois on his great game pre-serve in Bavaria...
...unit was formed in 1906 prospered swiftly with the expanding U. S. motor industry. By the time it fell into the clutches of the Alien Property Custodian in 1917 it was an exceedingly valuable piece of property with a plant of its own in Springfield, Mass. For nearly a decade the U. S. company was in almost continuous litigation arising in part from the unsavory record of the Alien Property Custodian's office, in part from the re-entry of Robert Bosch into the U. S. market under his own name after the War. Legal question...