Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more serious, threat to Kenyon was the impecunious rut into which small denominational colleges are apt to fall. For avoiding it Kenyonites give full credit to their lanky, weather-beaten President William Foster ("Fat") Peirce who, since he came from Boston in 1892, has built Kenyon a spruce modern plant, raised an endowment of $1,600,000. Under President Peirce, Kenyon has drawn its 250 students largely from prosperous Episcopalian families, supported flourishing chapters of the swanker Greek letter fraternities rarely found on Midwestern campuses. Particularly proud are Kenyon-ites of the college's trim airport and two planes...
...admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer Douglas, now head of the world's greatest airplane factory, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., will journey to the White House to receive from President Roosevelt the 21st Collier Trophy, now the top U. S. air honor, awarded...
Another city threatened by Mr. Rand was Middletown, Conn., where 900 struck sympathetically. There, plant officials also got machinery ready for shipment. Middletown's Mayor Leo Santangelo received a telegram from President Rand's assistant: "Because you have failed to give protection to honest workers . . . and have allowed radicals to coerce and intimidate them . . . the company has decided that Middletown is not a suitable community in which to carry on operations...
Leaving a $15 bonus offer for the Tonawanda strikers to think about Mr. Rand went to Ilion, where a committee of citizens from both Ilion and neighboring cities were under the distinct impression that the company had threatened to close their plant, too. Mr. Rand soon had the citizens' committee fighting pickets, and some 1,300 in Ilion went back to work. However, as soon as Ilion went back Tonawanda followed suit...
...Rand did not go to Syracuse but Syracuse went to him in Ilion in the form of a businessmen's committee. The committee understood that if workers returned to work, they could have what jobs were left in the Syracuse plant, held out hopes of a big increase in the Syracuse payroll by autumn. Great was the Syracusans' surprise, therefore, when Remington-Rand issued a statement which explained a great deal about the strike...