Word: cumberlandism
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...hearts and blackjack. Some read comics and newspapers. A soldier looked up from his paper . . . and read names of brands from the sheet-names of cigarets, cigars, foods, liquors-and the card players grinned at the sound of them. . . . Men called out the names of stations-Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Cumberland...
...businessmen who fear reconversion got a "guinea pig" to watch last week. By studying it they may get a clearer idea of what some of those fears amount to. The guinea pig: the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. in Cumberland...
Because of the rubber shortage, Kelly-Springfield, known in Cumberland as "The Kelly," was dawdling along under a, skeleton staff 18 months ago. Then The Kelly leased most of its 1,000,000 sq. ft. of plant to the War Department, contracted to turn out small-arms ammunition on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Shrewd, handsome Kelly President Edmund Sidney Burke handled the conversion to war production. He stored some of the tire-making machinery in plant buildings, to be handy for the reconversion job which would come some day-no one expected it so soon. Kelly...
Significantly for U.S. industry, the women will be hit hardest by the change, in Cumberland they will find no cushion to soften the jolt. Few have worked long enough to be eligible for unemployment compensation. In ordnance work, women inspect, gauge, operate automatic machines. But tiremaking is a hard, dirty, heavy job. A mere 300 may eventually get back their jobs with The Kelly. The remainder, some of whom worked just long enough to buy fur coats on the installment plan, must move away to find jobs, stay at home, join the WACS...
Readers from Wales to the Cumberland lake district have squirmed under the erudite, fervently democratic editorializing of Haley, but they have continued to read him. He fought Munich appeasement harder than any editor in England. His stubborn stand ultimately resulted in a vastly increased circulation. He has been loudly in favor of giving the public all war news, "however unpalatable," which does not aid the enemy...