Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood waters struck hot boilers, explosions and fires flared through the city. An exploding tank car in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad yards burned three business houses, two homes, a municipal garage. A nut & bolt plant, two steel plants, an oil works blazed away while firemen sloshed and fumbled. In a suburban house some 30 refugees were rocked, showered with bricks, singed when their shelter exploded and caught fire...
...costliest piece of glass in the world - the 200-in. telescope mirror destined for California Institute of Technology, 3,000 miles away. For nearly a year, since it was formed of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced fit for its job. 'Now it was ready for shipment. It weighed 20 tons, its complicated packing case 15 tons more. The trailer which brought it to the rail spur had taken 30 hours to move a quarter-mile...
...Electric, Westinghouse spraddles the entire field of electrical equipment. At its tremendous East Pittsburgh works it can make anything from waterwheel generators for Boulder Dam to complete power and control apparatus for steel rolling mills. At Derry, Pa. and Emeryville, Calif, it fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes in X-ray equipment, a Cleveland plant...
...Goodyear's President Paul Litchfield the Trade Commission's findings were just another problem in his currently harassed life. For the past fortnight Mr. Litchfield had been living in his Akron, Ohio plant, besieged by striking rubber workers. Emerging from his industrial fortress for the first time in two weeks, President Litchfield found time to declare: "We will appeal the decision of the Federal Trade Commission to the Federal courts. Were it permitted to stand, the decision would wipe out a widely used trade practice under which a substantial proportion of the country's total retail business...
...some of the things they do! All those botany professors talking about sex in plant life. And the way chemistry professors can put a couple of things together and get something else with a big name--nobody could figure it out, could they...