Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same hour, same day as the Democratic National Convention opened in Philadelphia last month, 9,000 members of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America went on strike at RCA Manufacturing Co.'s plant at Camden, N. J. Official demands of this potent industrial union were a closed shop, abolition of RCA's company union, a 20% wage increase. Real objectives were recognition by RCA of the union as sole collective bargaining agency within the plant, the same working conditions accorded employes of the nearby Philco Radio and Television Corp. factory...
...Leader Lewis was given free time by National Broadcasting Co., subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America, whose Victor plant at Camden, N. J. was last week fighting a strike of United Electrical & Radio Workers backed and partly financed by Leader Lewis and his Committee...
...includes tanks for milk, fuel oil and gasoline trucks. Still another ''industry'' is air conditioning, which the Woods entered in 1930 with the first oil burner furnace designed and built as a unit. Additional space wall soon be added to the Woods' Highland Park plant to take care of its booming air-conditioning business. The Woods also make automobile accessories like heaters, and last year acquired rights to William B. Stout's light, streamlined 24-passenger bus body. Only Wood enterprise not included in the "industries" is Gar Wood, Inc., the boat company...
...Logan is vice president & general manager. Brother George is the industrial engineer, Brother Edward the experimental engineer. Brother Louis the chief engineer. Brother Philip is manager of the Canadian subsidiary across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont. Brother Clinton, baby of the family, is manager of the Highland Park plant. And the Brothers Wood make money. Last week they announced that their business for the past twelve months ran 40% above the same previous period, that profits for the first half of 1936 exceeded...
...countries. Linotypes sold slowly at first. Original users were the Tribune, Louisville Courier-Journal, Chicago News and Inter-Ocean, Washington Post, Providence Journal. In 1891 Mergenthaler Linotype Co. was formed with Philip Tell Dodge, Washington patent attorney, as its first president. Heading the present 18-acre Brooklyn plant of Mergenthaler and its affiliates - London's Linotype and Machinery, Ltd. and Berlin's Mergenthaler Setzmaschinen-Fabrik - are able President Joseph T. Mackey and Board Chairman Norman Dodge. Last week they signalized commercial Linotype's 50th milestone with a radio program dedicated to their best customers...