Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are exceptions which prove the rule-an occasional child does well in school. Most adults work for somebody else in breweries textile mills, International Motors' plant, and neighboring Bethlehem Steel. Few hold real executive positions...
Commonwealth's most energetic official remained Charlotte ("Chucky") Moskowitz, executive secretary and wife of Lucien Koch's brother Raymond. Redhaired, 29, and freckled, "Chucky" Moskowitz raised money for the College, saw it through its legal and extra-legal baitings, got it electrical and water systems, a printing plant and the dairy in which the cows are now fed on the un-Marxian principle of "to each according to what she produces." Miss Moskowitz, during the last of her twelve years at Commonwealth, helped steer its policies away from doctrinaire paths, towards the more practical purpose of training people...
...applemen, Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was Jonathan Chapman, was first recorded as a slim 25-year-old who in 1801 turned up in Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying...
...that U. S. travelers see flicking past them on the highways of the land, but it is enough to make Joslyn the biggest independent U. S. telephone pole supplier.* From Idaho it gets trimmed poles of western red cedar, 25 to 35 ft. tall, creosotes them at its Chicago plant and sells them for $5 to $7. The company also manufactures a complete line of cross-arms, insulators, brackets, pins and other power line equipment which happens to be very much in demand by public utilities, now loosening up after years of pinching on maintenance. So last week Joslyn reported...
...presumably over $6,000,000 now, with profits near $1,000,000. Total outstanding stock is only 3,906 shares and these are held by 145 persons. Last week this stock was valued at about $3,000 a share, when an announcement was made by Colonel Walker. Pondering plant expansion financed by a possible public offering of shares, President Walker proposed to split stock 250 for 1, change the name of the company to Talon, Inc. Zip, the price of shares was bid up to $3,500, but there were no sales...