Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...path of progressive technology, Tom Girdler found double delight last week in formally opening what Republic claims is the world's largest, fastest and most mechanized continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week's slim demand for steel, the mill operated smoothly with scarcely a man in sight for a quarter-mile at a stretch...
...small business today is its inability to raise junior-debt and equity capital, rather than an absence of short-term credit." In other words, when a small business wants temporary funds, banks are glad to provide them.* But when a small business wants $500,000 to build a new plant, banks are generally unwilling to take such a long-term risk and the only resort for the business is to try to sell some securities. This presents unique difficulties for small businesses...
...Venus Flytrap and the Pitcher plant are the two insect eating varieties in the collection. The former closes its many jaws on juicy morsels of flies and slugs and it gradually absorbs them as its means of sustenance. The latter is more subtle and lazy--it makes no motions. Insects are lured into its pitcher-like growths and are so tangled and dazed by the intricacies within that they never return to daylight. Then there is the strange White Galla plant which spurts water from the tips of its leaves under a bright light...
...case a strike is about to be called, a plebiscite on the issue must first be held among workers in the plant concerned, by secret ballot. Coercion by trade union leaders or employers is thus theoretically held at arm's length. The Premier believes that this will result in the workers themselves democratically blocking hundreds of incipient strikes...
...Professor Lake for "teaching a work with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content" is summed up in Gradgrind's "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else...