Word: planted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...
This week, just 59 days after his men went to work, Earl Jones had his first (Sunday) edition on the street. It was a good, thick paper (four sections, 48 pages), with plenty of color comics, plenty of advertising, plenty of local news on Page 1. The Zanesville News plant was modern and complete, cost $250,000. With latest photographic and engraving equipment and brand-new unit tubular twin-12 presses, it was capable of printing the News in color throughout. Trucks were ready to deliver it daily and Sunday to every home in Muskingum County. And thorough Earl Jones...
...industries really exporting its product (to neutrals whose English-German sources are cut off), was so swamped that paradoxically, in spite of steady, increasing exports to Canada, Bethlehem Steel ordered 6,000 tons of coke a month from the Steel Co. of Canada's Hamilton (Ont.) plant...
...yarn was responsible. The No. 1 U. S. rayon producer, American Viscose Corp., had a yearly fibre capacity of 25,000,000 lbs. at the end of 1938, will have 65,000,000 lbs. by spring 1940. Fortnight ago it announced that it will build a new yarn plant at Front Royal, Va. to up its capacity...
This is only one more example of young (47) Jay C.'s industrial nonconformism. From the Hormel plant at Austin, Minn., he upset the packing industry with canned whole ham, spiced ham, canned whole chicken, beef stock soups and, lately, Spam (canned pork for making spam-wiches, etc.). There two years ago he signed a closed shop contract with C. I. O., defying packing industry precedent. He also guaranteed his workers 52 paychecks a year, and this year started a joint earnings plan which lets employes share the Hormel surplus (if any) with stockholders on a profits-wages ratio...