Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineering projects which are being undertaken in New York," continued Ridder, "are renovating the entire city plant in all its ramifications, and they provide jobs for the laborer, for the worker in the skilled trades, and for large numbers of engineers and draftsmen...
...discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed...
...Mother Church. There is also a great deal of climbing up and down painting the crosses on Soviet churches a brilliant Bolshevik red with the beaming acquiescence of the clergy. In the city of Izhevsk, according to the vexed Godless last week, young Soviet workers in the automobile plant now down their tools during working hours for brief but intensive periods of Bible reading. The Godless reported in several regions "mass baptisms of adults and even youths of Communist Youth...
Chrysler Corp, made $34,975,000 in 1935 as against $9,534,000 in 1934. The company took advantage of its good year to pay off the funded debt inherited from Dodge Bros., to spend $11,000,000 on plant improvement, to give employes a cash bonus of $2,300,000 (on present payrolls, about $40 a man). Chrysler sold 843,000 cars to dealers for $516,800,000; sold about one-fourth of all U. S. passenger cars, one-eighth of all U. S. trucks. Chrysler declared a $1 dividend for the first quarter of 1936, compared...
Auburn Automobile Co, lost $2,697,000 in 1935 as against a loss of $3,724,000 in 1934. With General Motors, Ford and Chrysler selling about 92% of 1935 cars, the little companies have hoed a hard row. Last week the Hupp plant was closed and Hupp President Vern Drum had resigned. Willys-Overland secured a court order allowing it to build 15,000 units, partly to keep labor off relief rolls...