Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with small means, was never "shabby" even in the old days. Under Col. Winn's guidance, each year the Downs's seating capacity has been added to and its comfort and its beauty increased. This year, with an expenditure of over $200,000 the entire Churchill Downs plant has been transformed until it sets a high mark in race course architecture for spaciousness, charm and luxury. The new clubhouse itself has no equal even among the great New York hotels in point of originality, furnishings and decorations. Col. Winn himself outlined and designed the lounge room. Modernistic...
...also used in 85% of all U. S. spark plugs. Metalman Marsh was the first man to make it, first to produce it commercially, first to put it on the market. More than half the alloy wire in U. S. heating elements is still made in his tidy Detroit plant...
...lost royalties. With total assets of less than $2,000,000, Hoskins last year made $429,000. Slow-spoken, tousled, deliberate, Metalman Marsh wears polka-dot ties, is rarely without a cigar. Before last week he had never received scientific kudos. Never plagued by labor troubles at the Hoskins plant, he worked out an employe compensation plan 13 years ago whereby a generous slice of profits is distributed to his 200 workers every year. Many a Hoskins man has waxed well-to-do ploughing back his bonuses into Hoskins stock, which pays $2 plus extras, sells at about...
...stripped from the cork oak for commercial purposes until the tree is 35 years old. San Francisco's Emory R. Smith said last week that, when he was faculty head of Stanford University's Agricultural Research School, he tried to persuade Founder Leland Stanford to plant 1,000 acres of his grant to cork oaks to provide the institution with future income. But 35 years looked like too long a time to the old Californian who had gained a fortune in short order from Southern Pacific R. R. "Had these cork oak trees been planted, as suggested...
...liabilities amounting to $180,000. They sounded out the old dealers who had held Berkey & Gay franchises, found 124 of them ready to give estimates of a year's requirements. Collecting old-time Berkey & Gay officers for the new company, they hired 300 men to open up one plant last autumn, floated $1,600,000 in new stock, started commercial production last April...