Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tired, discouraged, worried about health and money, Bertrand Snell, 67, Republican leader in the House, announced that after 24 years he would quit Congress, go back to his bank, insurance company and pump plant in northwestern New York...
...matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that the steel was actually being delivered from a Chicago plant next door. In 1924 FTC got around to jumping on "Pittsburgh Plus." Thereupon the industry developed the basing-point system whereby prices were quoted at some 80 steel-plant centres and a consumer paid the price of the nearest basing-point plus freight...
...Steel's abandonment of the price differential in effect abolishes an umbrella it has held over the independents. With its plants strategically placed. Big Steel has little fear of losing its present share of business, but some competitors in less favorable spots last week faced heavy losses. Bethlehem Steel's factories at Buffalo and Sparrows Point, Md., for example, had to cut their price for steel plate $2 more than did Big Steel in order to equalize freight difference and the effects of removing price differentials. Bluff Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp., whose modern plant...
...called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. . . ." The strike was not authorized in the beginning and not called until long after the trouble...
...called a protest strike, that 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. The Goodyear strike was an unauthorized "outlaw"' disturbance, perpetrated principally by WPA groups and non-Goodyear people, many admittedly former rubber workers, now unemployed in this era of the more abundant life...