Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Textron Retreat. In the Battle of Nashua (N.H.) over the closing of Textron, Inc.'s sheet and blanket factory (TIME, Sept. 27), the town won a partial victory. Harassed by a Senate committee, Textron's Royal Little agreed to continue his sheetmaking department (which employs 1,000 of his 3,500 workers) "as long as it remains profitable." Little also picked up some ammunition for his case against New England's easygoing textile workers. When he offered to keep the entire plant open if the workers would accept a heavier work load and increase production, the C.I.O...
Radcliffe Student Council today extended a blanket invitation to all Annex students -- upperclassmen and freshmen alike--to drop in on weekly Council sessions in the Student Government office, Longfellow 13, every Tuesday from...
Quick Action. In little more than a year he had closed plants in four New England towns, sold their machinery, abolished the jobs of 5,000 workers. Last week Roy Little announced that he would also close his sheet and blanket factory in Nashua, N.H., and open up six new plants in Puerto Rico. In Nashua 3,500 more workers were out of jobs...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
Dyak sophistication, however, is making progress along other lines. Malayan authorities were told that the only extra equipment required would be a shirt apiece. The Dyaks had other ideas. Jabu informed the camp commandant that each Dyak would need a messkit and cup, a groundsheet, a blanket and a mosquito...