Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army matériel. So far the Department has found no way to get around the cost-plus contract of World War ill-fame. But the 400 different contract forms in use then have been reduced to five, in the hope that simple phrasing and fore-analysis of actual plant costs may hold profiteering to a minimum...
...weathered away the monumental box. Concluded philosophical Reporter Casey: "Maybe there is something significant about that." Certainly the creator of the Maytag washing machine would not have understood the peace that returned last week to his "City of 12,000 Friendly Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took a 10% pay cut, gave up their 13-week strike and returned to work. But the spirit with which they returned was not what Father Maytag had fostered with good pay and generous gifts. They went back with a gripe against Son & Heir Elmer Henry Maytag and Iowa...
...frantic by demanding that they produce a really cheap "People's Car." Last May he finally took the job away from them and at Fallersleben laid the cornerstone of a factory nearly two miles long by a mile wide, "The Largest Factory of Any Kind in Europe." This plant is not scheduled to turn out cars until winter after next, but when orders were accepted last week, German workers scrambled so eagerly to sign on the dotted lines that in a few hours every KdF order blank in the Reich had been used...
...sufferers, the 15th of August, when ragweed fever begins, is their last sneezeless day till frost. Why the disease always strikes on August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness for a given date is the same from year to year...
Probably the only U. S. artist equally eminent in photography and painting, Sheeler spent six weeks in 1927 photographing the Ford plant at River Rouge. Doubting critics to whom Charles Sheeler's industrial paintings seem to deviate from photographic realism only in their fine selectivity and arbitrary color values may disagree with Biographer Rourke about the degree of three-dimensional design underlying them. More clearly a fusion of abstraction and realism are earlier paintings of farmhouse interiors, later paintings of patterned objects in Artist Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves...