Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid all but $700,000 of the $5,000,000 debt it incurred seven years ago. When the $700,000 is written off, Arlington Park, only non-profit race track in the U. S., will put its surplus into plant improvements, richer prizes. When prizes reach a reasonable limit, Chicago racing will turn over $500,000 a year to charity...
...Industrial Organization. Equally ineffectual was General Hugh S. Johnson, engaged by RCA as mediator. At first the strike was marked by nothing more violent than United Workers cheering pickets on with Sousa marches blared through a loudspeaker. RCA retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal, light bulbs loaded with ammonia...
...Camden lid blew off to make real news. In its "final statement," RCA demanded that the strike cease, refused to recognize John Lewis' United Workers as the sole bargaining agency even if a Labor Relations Board poll should show it to represent a majority of RCA's plant employes. One afternoon last week a crowd of 3,000. including 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp. sympathizers, went after RCA employes as they filed out of the plant. Bricks, stones and clubs flew freely in a two-hour pitched battle (see cuts). Next day another skirmish...
Hale and ebullient in a grey tweed suit and straw hat, Henry Ford stepped briskly into the powerhouse of his huge River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...
...part of his $37,000,000 expansion and modernization program, Mr. Ford needed more current for welding and melting. His new 110,000-kilowatt generator increases the total plant capacity to 326,000-h. p., makes it the biggest steam-powered generating station in the world.* The machine cost $4,600,000 weighs 2,000,000 lb., operates at a temperature of 900°, a pressure of 1,200 lb. per sq. in. The new generator, proudly delivered by General Electric Co., was not to be put on the line without ceremony. Mr Ford spied GE's Chief Turbine...