Word: blackburn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of Detroit Aircraft Corp., which embraces Lockheed Aircraft Co., Ryan Aircraft Corp., Grosse Ile Airport, Aircraft Development Corp., Parks Air College, Eastman Aircraft Corp., Winton Aviation Engine Co., Blackburn Aeroplane Corp...
...finished, Universal had plenty of material left over?pantalettes, clippings of river scenes, Joseph Schildkraut's southern accent, beaver hats, some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...
Fortnight ago the greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME...
...trooped triumphantly back to the mills. Under a scheme set up by that sensible Scot, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, they would be paid the old wage, at least until the arbiters had made an award. When first news of this compromise reached such famed cotton towns as Manchester, Blackburn and Oldham, joyous craftsfolk paraded and snake-danced through their dingy slums, shouting "Strike's Off! STRIKE...
Mayors Mediate. Despairing of Government mediation the Mayor of Blackburn induced nine other Lancashire mayors to unite under his chairmanship as a Committee of Conciliation. In a few hours they had established relations with Secretary Thomas Ashurst of the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Association, with Secretary George Pogson of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners. Here at last was a channel through which both sides could dicker without losing face...