Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When James William Ellsworth, father of Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, died in 1925, the village of Hudson, Ohio, collected some $60,000 in taxes from his estate, spent it for a sewage disposal plant, fire equipment, street paving. The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the village to refund $34,505,77 to Son Lincoln because Hudson had overtaxed the Ellsworth estate. Having splurged the $60,000, Hudson's Mayor Carman unhappily revealed that the town had only $154.47 left to pay Explorer Ellsworth...
...does not follow that the mere possession of a participation ticket, which would be the case under the present suggestion, would force every man to take sufficient exercise. It is logical, however, that if the plant be functioning at its maximum efficiency, and there be teams and coaches in as many sports as possible, Harvard would stand a better chance of producing more well-grounded healthy men. To the man who wants to spend all of his spare hours in Widener or Mallinckrodt the ten dollar levy would indubitably be a hardship; but the sacrifice of this small minority seems...
Beside the tremendous physical expansion in both plant and number of men accomodated, less striking but no less significant changes have taken place in the relationship between the Athletic Association and the faculty as a whole. The traditional distrust between the man who teaches the star halfback football and the man who teaches him history, usually resulting in a permanent state of warfare between the dean's office and the athletic association, does not exist in Cambridge as it still continues to in some other colleges...
...last week Stalin's pampering of Stakhanovites, who are not necessarily Communists, had roused the Young Communists to scoffing gibes at "stuck-up Stakhanovites" and disclosures of the pampering they enjoy. According to the Young Communists, one 17-year-old Stakhanovite mechanic in a Moscow carburetor plant has been swept into such a whirl of balls, banquets, meetings in his honor and general "bourgeois publicity" topped off by floods of flattering poetry that this carbureting Stakhanovite did only 16 days work in December, nine in January and seven in February...
...years later, a graduate of the University of Illinois, he joined the engineering staff of General Electric, where he worked for a time with the late, great Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. No recluse, he served a term as Mayor of Scotia, N. Y., near G. E.'s Schenectady plant...