Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshmen wishing to compete for the news board will be allowed to register at the CRIMSON Building any evening this week. Actual work will start next Monday, but those registering early will be given an opportunity to inspect the plant and have individual conferences with the assignment editor who will be in charge of the competition...
...afternoon last week, members of C. I. O.'s Utility Workers Organizing Committee in the Zilwaukee, Mich, plant of the Consumers Power Co. calmly evicted the superintendent and sundry non-C. I. O. workers, manned the gates to the plant and announced they were on strike...
...three years at his airplane plant at Evere, in suburban Brussels, Belgian Manufacturer Alfred Renard has been busy planning a revolutionary high-flying transatlantic machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked...
Once the most famed of automobile firms, Fierce-Arrow began by making bird cages in 1870. First automobile was made in 1901. By the time of the World War the plant was booming on truck contracts for the Army. The company was bought by Studebaker in 1928, in 1929 had net earnings of $2,566,112. Left a grass widow when Studebaker went into receivership, Fierce-Arrow lost $3,000,000 in 1932 in the face of Depression and better cheap cars. In 1933 a group of Buffalo businessmen paid $1,000,000 for the Pierce plant, tried...
...sheets instead of steel in ingot form) is used in an ever-increasing variety of products-tanks, freight cars, automobiles, beer barrels, stoves, refrigerators, signs. Republic's new mill is designed for "tailor-made" production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant...