Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor of liquidating the business of the company, distributing its assets among the stockholders. No one moved or spoke when the announcement was made. Then President Lennihan rose to assure those present that the directors would do their best to prevent a hasty sale of the plant, would try to dispose of it as a unit. That night nearly one-fifth of the people of Southbridge crawled into bed with nothing to look forward to but the dole...
...decision at least admonishes Congress that it has a duty to legislate and not abdicate. The logic of the decision would seem clearly to include the codes of so-called fair competition. Let me give you an illustration. A man writes me he wanted to start an ice plant. The community wanted him to start an ice plant. The Code Authority issued an order that he could not start an ice plant. One of the parties issuing the order was a man who had an ice plant in the same town. If the man violates this order he is sent...
...this Imperial Airways is relying on an ingenious device invented by its technical adviser, Major R. H. Mayo, Order of the British Empire, Associate Member of the Institute of Chemists, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Major Mayo's invention, now building at Short Brothers' Rochester (England) plant, is known as the Composite Aircraft. Simple in theory, it consists of a small, fast mail plane with high wind loading, mounted rigidly atop a huge flying boat. Unable to leave the ground by itself fully loaded, the sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship...
...promotions, which have never been burdened by the law because they have no corporate history, will continue to use the strict old form. But no longer is it necessary for an old-line company to describe in painful detail every last trivial law suit, every last patent, every last plant built and abandoned years...
...with a Ford part the years drop away from his thin shoulders, and he seems a different person from the aging man who has an earthy platitude for every interviewer. Ruralist and antiquarian though he has become, the Henry Ford who in 1934 laid out $20,000,000 for plant expansion when Big Business was shivering for reassurances or who boldly announced that he would spend nearly $500,000,000 for wages and materials in 1955, is the Henry Ford who motorized...