Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state of the steel industry that the offer was demoralizing. Youngstown Sheet & Tube allegedly nibbled first, offering Ford a $2 a ton cut. He held out, won a reduction twice as big, added insult to injury by splitting the bone he was throwing seven different ways, so that no plant got more than a sniff of business...
After dark, a parade of 75 automobiles, their license plates shrouded, drove through the Negro district. In the cars rode white-hooded figures, distributing threats lettered in red, twirling a suggestive hangman's noose. At 25 street corners the Ku-Kluxers paused to plant and ignite fiery crosses. From a pole they hung a black effigy labeled: "This nigger voted...
...Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
...rhymes with "hotcha") left his small shoe factory in Zlin to study mass production methods in the U. S. He applied what he learned so well that by the World War his Zlin factory was turning out 6,000 pairs a day. Then Austria took over the plant and Shoemaker Bat'a returned to the U. S., set up a small factory in Lynn. When Czecho-Slovakia was born in 1918, he returned to Zlin to build Bat'a Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity: 250,000 pairs a day). Seven years...
...wisely sojourning in Rumania when Germany grabbed Czecho-Slovakia, but has since returned to Zlin. His biggest current problem is the 25% countervailing duty imposed by the U. S. on German-made goods, which completely kills Czech shoe imports (3,250,000 pairs last year). The Belcamp plant is Bat'a's attempt to hold this fat U. S. market...