Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refusing to negotiate, Steelman Frick tossed up a board & barbed-wire fence around the plant, locked his workers out. When the men surrounded "Fort Frick," barring entrance to scabs, Frick sent to New York for 300 Pinkerton detectives...
...m.p.h., it outmoded practically all former equipment, became standard on most major U. S. airlines. When a DC2 took second place in the 1934 MacRobertson air race from England to Australia, was beaten only by a special racer, Europe too "went Douglas." By last week, the booming Douglas plant at Santa Monica had delivered not only 81 DC-2's in the U. S. at $80,000 apiece, but 49 in Holland, Java, Batavia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Australia, China, Japan...
Last week in Chicago one of the survivors wrote a neat chapter into radio history. Zenith Radio Corp. bought the West Side plant of defunct Grigsby-Grunow Co., whose Majestic line, and common stock, were spectacular successes just before Depression. Last week Grigsby-Grunow had been two years in bankruptcy. Its West Side plant, valued at $1,500,000, was knocked down to Zenith...
...plume for Zenith's past, staying power and present rewards belongs to resourceful President Eugene Francis McDonald Jr. Born 48 years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., he left Syracuse University to work in the Franklin Automobile plant pushing a bastard file through aluminum. Before the War he went to Chicago, there to sell Fords on the installment plan, then sternly disapproved by frugal Henry Ford. After a couple of years in the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked...
...airplane manufacturing plant which has grown to be the world's largest is the (1 Boeing Aircraft Company, Seattle, Washington, 2 Henkel Manufacturing Company, Germany, 3 Sikorsky Airplane Company, Connecticut, 4 Douglas Aircraft Company, California, 5 ZTU Company, Russia...