Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one thing has troubled the serenity of New Bedford. Wages of the textile operatives, averaging $19 a week, were undeniably low. And when the mill owners announced, early last April, that wages were to be cut by 10%, reducing the average wage to $17 a week, the workers were stirred to serious and active protest. Out of 27 mills walked some 27,000 operatives, spinners and weavers, loom fixers, slasher tenders. They left 3,000,000 spindles idle, and 50,000 looms...
Seizing tail, Mrs. Jackson tugged kitten from torn ear, killed kitten. Soon Dr. Frederick Adams, a Board of Health official, cut off kitten's head and sent it to the Provincial Laboratories at Toronto to be examined for rabies symptoms. Meanwhile prattling Jeanette Jackson received Pasteur treatment, did not seem to have rabies...
...most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway men and railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth a cut of 2½% in pay will be accepted by every underling executive officer and director of the railways concerned. Contrarywise, 500,000 Manchester cotton workers announced last week, that they would strike for higher pay, but were locked out before they could strike by irate employers...
Lost in the Arctic. In 1913, Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson led an expedition for the Canadian government into the Arctic. Four men became cut off from the main party and were never heard from. Ten years later, H. A. and Sidney Snow set out with cameras to discover what happened to the four men. Lost in the Arctic is an authentic and thrilling record of the Snow expedition. They went up the west coast of Alaska, hunting whales and walruses, lassoing a 2,200-pound polar bear and taking him aboard ship alive, hobnobbing with colonies of seals, strange birds, Eskimos...
Previously Mason Morren had removed all nearby ladders into the building, locked all doors, cut the telephone line. He now ascended and climbed out upon the balustrade, for which Belgium's Hero Primate, the late Desire Cardinal Mercier, approved the following inscription...