Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Individual accomplishments are difficult to classify in the Register & Tribune plant. But it was during John Cowles's ascendancy that circulation was upped from 114,000 to 280,000; that national features were added until the paper now offers 17, from Walter Lippmann to Waiter Winchell-more headliners than any other newspaper in the U. S.; that three radio stations were established; that profits mounted to a prodigious figure with 48% of revenue coming from circulation. Definitely credited to John Cowles is the Register & Tribune Syndicate, started eleven years ago and now serving some 40 features to clients...
Last week Union Bag & Paper Corp. approved final plans for a $4,000,000 plant in Savannah, Ga. Up to last month when the world's biggest maker of paper bags leased a tract along the Savannah River on the old Hermitage Plantation,* the city's businessmen & bankers were on pins & needles lest the company choose another site for its first Southern paper mill. Fernandino, Fla. tried desperately to wangle PWA funds to build a pine-pulp mill, which Union Bag was to operate. Then Jacksonville was discussed. But at last Savannah's newspapers got their chance...
...serves as naval custodian, a resident physician, five Chinese, seven Japanese. The Pan American men bring the total population to 57. Advance crews from the North Haven moved in 2,000 tons of material-160,000 separate items. On a broad clearing they erected seven buildings including a power plant with 9-ton Diesel-electric generators, kitchen & mess hall, refrigeration plant with six months' food supplies, airport manager's office, boathouse with two launches, gasoline & oil storage station, machinery storehouse, radio transmitting and receiving station and radio compass station. In addition there are four houses as living quarters...
Merrill has described about three thousand new species of plants of Australasia and Indo-Malayia. He is also an authority on the plant life of North America...
...with him to Stockbridge High School, where it now has 150 members. Beaming on this venture in self-education, high-school officials furnished a schoolroom for weekly meetings, appointed a faculty adviser. Automotive manufacturers send lecturers, catalogs, publicity handouts, occasionally lend an automobile. Most obliging has been the Oldsmobile plant in nearby Lansing. Last week the Royal Lions' president smashed a pop bottle on the radiator of the club's car-of-the-year: an Oldsmobile...