Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distilled off, as in the some-what similar process of "cracking" petro- leum. Germany produced about 300,000 tons of motor fuel by coal-hydrogenation last year; 500.000 tons is a likely figure for this year. Last year England's Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. completed a hydrogenation plant of 150,000 tons annual capacity. In the U. S., which produces oceans of oil, the commercial process has not got under...
Fires of ill-feeling were kindled when Maurice P. Davidson and Tenement Housing Commissioner Langdon W. Post, as spokesmen for New York's utility-hating Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. and Superintendent Ezra Frederick Scattergood of the Los Angeles municipal power plant made speeches declaring that the only hope of getting reasonable utility rates was to start public plants in competition. For this breach of promise, half a dozen U. S. utility men refused to participate in the discussions. Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power subsequently took occasion to declare that in spite of its municipal plant, Los Angeles had neither...
...same or different management. In the event of a knockdown sale these gentlemen apprehended mighty Amoskeag converted into junk, providing neither jobs for Manchester workers nor business for them. Fortnight ago a citizens' committee headed by Manchester's onetime Mayor Arthur Edmond Moreau decided to buy the plant themselves, sell all or any part to manufacturers who would guarantee...
...over to the liquidating trustees in Boston a check for $500,000 as 10% payment on an agreed price of $5,000,000. In addition to its first $100,000, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire promised to pay Amoskeag Industries $2,250,000 for the hydro-electric power plant which had driven Amoskeag looms and spindles. Cautiously said Amoskeag Industries' President Moreau: "Maybe by winter some industry will be located in the plant...
...passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant up tight. Publisher William Vaughn Tanner was thereupon obliged to ''suspend indefinitely" (TIME...