Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposed by hotels and restaurants. The New York State Hotel Association underwrote some $50,000 of Joe Tipaldo's court costs, but he spent more than $15,000 of his own money. When the case was won, Laundryman Tipaldo had $8,000 left, used it to expand his plant. Since many laundries kept the minimum wage, he prospered for a time by undercutting his competitors with what he saved on labor costs...
...were beginning to complain that customers told them I shouldn't have fought this case. People were listening to stories in the newspapers against me. My customers wouldn't give my drivers their wash. Then the Laundry Workers International Union tried to demonstrate in front of my plant and I got the police to chase them away. But they went to the next corner and made speeches knocking me every night...
...wages-for-women in his convention telegram, it seemed improbable that Joe Tipaldo would be employed in the Republican campaign. Already enlisted as a GOP speaker, however, was a more famed New Deal martyr, Fred C. Perkins of York, Pa. Because he could not pay workers in his battery plant NRA code wages, the big, hairy-fisted onetime Cornell footballer went to jail for 18 days, was fined $1,500, became the nation's prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then the Perkins' battery business has gone steadily...
...quarter mile straightaway thanked by grandstands. The other three and a quarter miles, lying just beyond the straightaway, are coiled into three major loops, shaped like the profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world, the Raceway cost $1,000,000, which its first race may pay back. An enormous public address system will inform the crowd what is happening as cars roll around the rolls. Stands and infield will hold 160,000 spectators, which Roosevelt Raceway hopes...
...Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim. He conveyed his ideas to a crack German machinist named Emile Weinaug who built an electrocution device. When it proved sound in principle they took it to the San Francisco plant of Link-Belt Co., which enthusiastically took the machine under its corporate wing, gave Weinaug a job in the tool-room. Link-Belt plans to feel out its market before jumping into quantity production, sell the first machines for $1,500, part of which will go to Onorato and Weinaug...