Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game of Monopoly, Mr. Knight gave Moses L. Annenberg, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Massillon, Ohio Independent as part-payment for Mr. Annenberg's three-year-old tabloid Miami Tribune. Mr. Knight killed the growing Tribune, moved the Herald into Miami's youngest newspaper plant, the $300,000 building departing Mr. Annenberg had just...
...been in business 40 or more years. That it has several handsome buildings well equipped with laboratory facilities, employs more than 200 people at Bristol including six graduate pharmaceutical chemists and other trained assistants. Dr. Massengill holds an M. D. degree, and is directly in charge of the plant. This plant manufactures drugs for human consumption which are used by many of the largest and best hospitals and physicians throughout the country. Never before has this company been subjected to any serious criticism of its products. Dr. Massengill is a man who enjoys an enviable reputation for his honesty...
...turn a subsidiary of National Power & Light Co., an Electric Bond & Share Co. affiliate). Although Pennsylvania Power already had contracts for emergency power from three other power companies and even from Bethlehem Steel, in 1928 it leased from Lehigh Valley Transit for $500,000 a year a turbo-generating plant at the corner of Front & Linden streets in Allentown. To date $4,300,000 has been paid for the rental of this emergency plant and in nine years it has been used twice- most recently for a few days during the 1936 floods. That time it had two weeks...
...afternoon last week three Utility Commission engineers and a lawyer, John C. Kelley, rapped at the door of the Allentown plant. Mr. Kelley presented the superintendent, a Pennsylvania Dutchman named Fenstermacher, with a formal notice from Mr. Beamish. Superintendent Fenstermacher gave a guttural gasp. The notice read: "I assume that a theoretical breakdown of considerable magnitude has taken place. ..." With Allentown plunged into theoretical darkness, demand was made that the plant produce power immediately. There were only five men in the plant and the nearest skilled help was 200 miles away in Williamsport. Superintendent Fenstermacher sent a frantic call...
...next day three others had started, but one promptly broke down when an oil line clogged. The fifth, Superintendent Fenstermacher was surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they did not feel like eating anything. Mr. Beamish...