Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early July. Inside the plant, where they had worked, eaten, slept for three days, cowered 18 non-union workers...
Next day Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson moved the besieged non-unionists out under police guard, shut down the Flour City plant under threat of martial...
...mountains as green and cool as those around Geneva, 120,000 bronzed and singing troops of Fascist Italy are marching today along the road of empire to plant their Roman eagles before the Council of the League of Nations ends its deliberations...
...stranger to Lehigh, President-Elect Williams has known some of the older faculty members since he worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 25 years ago. A graduate of Southern Iowa Normal School, he turned to teaching before the War, quit to supervise a government explosives plant at Nitro, Va. At University of Illinois, where he was head of the Engineering department from 1922 to 1926, he built one of the best hydraulic laboratories in the U. S. During his Iowa deanship, he built a television station. Twice married, he likes to hike with his three children, teaches a Sunday...
...latest result. The first policy was to retire most of Steel's funded debt. That was accomplished in 1929, saving some $30,000,000 annually in fixed charges and enabling the corporation to ride out Depression without seriously depleting its treasury. Second was a vast program of plant improvement still in progress. Third was to pension off an army of aging executives, re-peopling Steel's offices with smart young men, of whom the most notable was Edward Riley Stettinius, son of the late Morgan partner. Now only 34 and vice chairman of the omnipotent finance committee, Steelman Stettinius...