Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First reports of a devastating fire in one of the many Leftist munitions plants established in Barcelona's suburbs leaked out of Spain last week through Perpignan, France. The fire and the resulting explosions were said to have killed 400 persons. Many workmen, thinking an air raid was on, took refuge in the plant's basement, where they were smothered. There was a hint that a Rightist espionage agent had been responsible for a telling blow to the Leftist munitions supply. Another version was that a careless laborer simply dropped an explosive shell...
...meet the demands of Lord Beaverbrook, workmen last week finished turning a former corset factory into a new and larger "Black Glass House"* in the great industrial city of Manchester, 189 miles northwest of London. Costing just under $1,000,000, the new Manchester plant will continue to turn out at least ten of the multiform editions of the Express, which is printed simultaneously in three cities (London, Manchester, Glasgow) so it can arrive in every corner of the British Isles along with its readers' breakfast muffins...
...world's most efficient bombers. In the first nine months this year, his company sold nearly $12,000,000 worth of airplanes and equipment, netting $2,000,000. But his stockholders have never drawn a dividend, all profits having been ploughed back into the company for plant expansion...
...Andrews, to whom businessmen pray for guidance every day, last week submitted to Franklin Roosevelt the first general report on the actual effects of the Act. Said Elmer Andrews: "Many of the earlier news reports considerably exaggerated the difficulties experienced because of the new Act. The number affected by plant layoffs is apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were employed in pecan shelling, tobacco...
Still significant, but no longer raging among scientists, is the Vitalism v. Mechanism controversy. Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, has long been recognized in certain worms, crustaceans, plant lice, and many artificial parthenogenesis experiments have been performed with mechanical or chemical stimulation...