Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about one-half of total sales. Electric motors, generators and appliances rank second. Fairbanks Morse is one of the biggest pump-makers in the U. S. It supplies railroads with inspection cards, water-tanks and coaling stations. But for every person who has seen a Fairbanks, Morse municipal power plant or a Fairbanks, Morse oil pipe-line pumping station, thousands in every corner of the civilized world have seen Fairbanks scales...
Fairbanks, Morse still makes every conceivable variety of scales and distributes them throughout the world. But the great scale plant at St. Johnsbury has long since been overshadowed by the main Midwest plant at Beloit...
...bought a 2,000-acre estate at Lloyd's Neck on Long Island. There he built a magnificent Georgian mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, a Georgian stable embellished with scrollwork, numerous cottages and barns, a 20-car garage, a power plant. He collected paintings. He kept prize Guernsey cows. He contributed to the Republican Party. He became a director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and a dozen other companies. He helped support the Field Museum in Chicago. His grandfather's estate, of which he is one of the trustees, spent $4,000,000 building low-cost apartments...
...Union Bag's new factory will employ nearly 1,000 persons directly, and another 500 indirectly in the nearby woods. However, the Savannah paper mill did not represent the long-promised birth of a Southern newsprint industry. Like many another paper mill in the South, the Union Bag plant will turn out coarse, dark kraft paper for bags and wrapping...
...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...