Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Electrical & Radio Workers (C. I. O.). Last May the company suddenly signed an A. F. of L. contract providing not only for exclusive bargaining but also for a closed shop. That meant that every C. I. O. man in National Electric's plant had to join the A. F. of L. union and have union dues deducted from his pay. Since it claimed a majority, C. I. O. was hopping mad, promptly called a strike, complained to the Labor Board...
...assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under Section 7/-B, failed, and likewise lost control of Zion City's theocratic municipal government. Last week Federal...
Arrest. For several weeks SEC has been investigating the sale of some 273,000 shares of stock registered last year by Trenton Valley Distillers Corp., a sizable company with a plant at Detroit, which is now closed. It was discovered first that the stock had not been sold through the underwriters named in the registration statement; further, that the company took $1 a share for stock which was at that time selling for $3 over-the-counter in Detroit. The difference was apparently absorbed by no less than four sets of middle men and at least two go-betweens...
...after the Revolution, when Philadelphia was the U. S. capital, local high livers discovered the mushrooms that had grown wild locally for years. Farmers thereupon tried to grow them artificially. Sometimes they got good crops, sometimes none. Then in 1904 Edward Henry Jacob, an accountant in a cream separator plant, began experimenting with mushrooms...
...small to be seen by the naked eye. By a process still kept secret, he isolated mushroom spores in little bottles where they developed into spawn in a mixture of sifted manure. Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons a year. Buying the manure is a serious problem, for the supply is decreasing...