Word: biddeford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag Co. of Manchester, N. H. (largest textile mill in the world) announced a 10% cut, and the game...
...Race and the right to represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Trophy (international) race in the autumn. Second and third places went to the Detroit Flying Club entry and the Army No. 3 balloon from Scott Field, Ill., who respectively floated to Skowhegan, Me. (665 miles) and Biddeford, Me. (610 miles). The pilots of these two balloons are also eligible to enter the Bennett Trophy race...
Director Charles Thorn announced last week. The discovery resulted from the many cases of cramps that citizens of Biddeford, Me., developed two years ago after eating imported cheese. Examination of this cheese showed that it contained myriads of bacteria, of the lactic type, used to "start" milk turning into butter or cheese. Further study revealed an interloper, which resembled the bacteria. Dr. Thorn's bureau cultured these strange germs in milk and fed the milk to cats. In a few hours the cats were violently ill, as ill as were the folk of Biddeford, with intestinal disturbances. Said...
...Biddeford Pool...
Into the ocean at Biddeford Pool, Me., plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...