Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tell me where you stand,' Göring said turning to a grey-haired foreman. I have been a Communist for many years,' was the reply. 'And are you still a Communist?' 'Yes.' 'And are there many Communists in this plant?' Göring pressed. 'Oh, only about 30% of the force.' 'What are the rest?' 'Well, approximately 50% of the total are Social Democrats,' someone volunteered. 'And the remaining 20%?' Göring asked hopefully. 'They are Christian Socialists.' 'Then...
...Douglas Fairbanks Jr. go off to England to seek better roles and show what he knew about picture-making might do well to take a look at this sample of his ideas. The Amateur Gentleman set records in several London theatres. It was made by Fairbanks at the Gaumont plant, with money supplied by a London syndicate headed by Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early 1800's a man could be hanged...
Most distinguishing feature of the Phillips business is the fact that it buys tin plate, makes its own cans. About 85% of the Phillips cans are used in its 14 packing plants, the rest sold outside. Campbell's cans are made by Continental Can, which has a plant next door to the big soup works in Camden, N. J., rolls the cans on to the Campbell conveyer belts automatically...
...boomed the Koppers business because it cut off the German supply of such explosive coal derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol. For three years Koppers' Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...
...present Sapolio factory at Manhattan's Bank and West Streets stands on the site of a plant built by Enoch Morgan in 1844 after a number of prosperous years in the soap business his father-in-law started in 1809. Sapolio itself, named by the Morgan family doctor, was not manufactured until 1869 by Enoch's three sons. Its world-cleansing career began in 1883, when a high-powered adman named Artemas Ward* was hired to push Sapolio sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store...