Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Senator Brown put into the record copies of complicated contracts between operating utilities and their affiliates by which the operating companies paid 2½% of gross earnings for management, 7½% of gross cost of constructing plant and equipment, 1½% of the cost of all purchases, a 30% margin of profit on sales of electric appliances to their affiliates- to illustrate ''how the profits of an operating utility can be siphoned out by a holding company." "It is," the Senator declared, "merely a scheme whereby the local utility does the same business it did originally...
...last week the plant shut down. For two days Anna Schlorer Smith shut herself up at home and brooded. Then she took a razor, slashed her throat, both wrists. A maid discovered her just in time to keep her from bleeding to death...
...years Reporter Howey was city editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, founded by Charles T. Yerkes as a political houseorgan for that tycoon's traction schemes. When the paper had done its job, Yerkes presented it to his editor, George Wheeler Hinman, with an electric light plant in the Loop for good measure to pay the paper's bills. Into office went Mayor Fred A. Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman...
Newly elected president of White Motor Co. in Cleveland is Robert F. Black. Fortnight ago President Black's 2,500 White workmen went on strike. Prime issue: seniority rights. Promptly Mr. Black shut the White plant, published an advertisement complimenting the strikers on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." Then seeing the strike pickets idle, he bought baseballs, gloves, bats so that they could play ball in a vacant lot. For those who did not play ball he rented a nearby bowling alley. Meanwhile the strikers got out White brooms, White rubbish cans, kept...
...They have lived where others would have died, BECAUSE OF SCIENTIFIC CARE. . . . These babies have not been kissed on the mouth by Tom, Dick and Harry, as so many unfortunate little children are kissed; nobody has been allowed to plant germ diseases in their systems...