Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber vice president. At a preliminary session he orated: "Today the individual is no longer free to move as he pleases in the field of his lawful affairs. He must wait to get the 'go' sign from Washington before he can sow a field of wheat, plant a couple of rows of potatoes, fire a fellow who is stirring up trouble in the factory, get a few friends to buy stock in a new venture . . . or do any of a dozen other simple and ordinary things in which, a few years ago, the Federal Government had no concern...
...dynamic maxim attributed to Stephen Girard reads: "My deeds must be my life; when I am dead my actions must speak for me." We hope Christian manhood leaving Girard College is eloquent action; a mere educational plant done up in Chester County marble is rather static-entirely speechless...
...borders. The Maine legislature had failed to set up a Quoddy Power Authority, which was part of the agreement with the Federal Government. The ground for the upland reservoir proved to be so sandy that it would not hold water, and plans had to be made for a steam plant to operate during Quoddy's ten idle hours. Critics contended that for $16,000,000 a steam-generating plant could be built which would produce just as much electricity as the whole of Quoddy, thereby saving $20,000,000. They said that the nearest market for Quoddy...
...ideas. Since he has had control of the Council, his administration has gone from bad to worse and caused many unfortunate developments in this city. His influence was directly responsible for much of the violence that occurred during the street railway strike, the strike at the Seaman Body plant, Lindemann & Hoverson etc., the passage of the famous Boncel Ordinance being one of the most vicious things in modern industrial history in any U. S. city...
...Laughlin bankers scrupulously pointed out in their prospectus, flood damage amounted to perhaps $1,000,000. But weather played another trick on J. & L. this year. At a tremendous saving over rail-carried fuel, the company barges coal by rivers to Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, site of its other big plant 19 miles away. There was more ice in Pittsburgh's rivers last winter than at any time since 1918. For 33 days no water-borne coal was delivered to the Aliquippa works. Costs were increased so much that the company estimated that operations in the first two months...