Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring's strikes as Robert Kanter and Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther...
...between Seville-Cordoba and the north. In the north another Leftist offensive thrust forward to cut a rail line connecting Rightist Spain with the French border, the Saragossa-Huesca railway. Meanwhile Leftists sent a heavy barrage of over 1,000 shells into Toledo, completely wrecking a big Rightist munitions plant...
Although this Administration has been lagging behind the Plan, Old Bolshevik Dybets recently made supreme and successful efforts to raise production at Russia's largest motor works, the Molotov Plant at Gorky. It is now nearly up to planned production, is turning out daily 400 trucks and 82 little sedans of 4-cylinder Ford type. But while this substantial success at the Molotov Plant may please and flatter Soviet Premier Molotov, for whom the factory was named, Soviet Dictator Stalin has been anything but pleased by such results as Old Bolshevik Dybets has been able to achieve...
Modern specialists in plant diseases would recognize these ominous signs as symptoms of Phytophthora infestans, a species of fungus with rapid germinating properties and extremely virulent effects. To the half-savage, wholly uneducated peasantry, it was known simply as "the Blight," and regarded as a hellish, heaven-sent scourge. Holy-water and incantation were the only remedies invoked against it. Its onset marked the beginning of perhaps the most bitter famine in post-medieval European history...
...Other base acreages suggested: potatoes, 3,100,000 to 3,300,000 acres; rice 825,000 to 875,000 acres; tobacco, 1,400,000 acres; corn, 92,000,000 to 96,000,000 acres. Wheat was not mentioned, for wheat farmers, having yet to produce a normal carryover, may plant unrestricted...