Word: dalton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Dalton, 29, is a big, friendly Manhattan building contractor who used to play halfback at West Point. He is also a devout Catholic and vigorous American. Strolling with some friends one evening a few years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked...
...whom Harry Dalton had pulled off the stand was a Christian Mobilizer, an organization spawned by radiorating Father Coughlin (though Father Coughlin denies any relationship). Harry began to attend Christian Mobilizer meetings as a heckler. At one meeting he heard handsome, Jew-baiting Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams, leader of the Mobilizers, and American Destiny Party candidate for Congress from Yorkville, Manhattan's German settlement. After listening to handsome Joe, who is part Cherokee Indian, with a smattering of formal education (a WPA public-speaking course), Harry decided that heckling was not enough. He hauled McWilliams off the stand. McWilliams...
...women to handle. After 1921 they began to take over the industry. One of the first was a young Georgian named Burl ("Chickenhawk'') Judson Bandy, now a 52-year-old, bullet-headed bedspread tycoon who flies his own cabin plane. When Real Silk bought out a Dalton hosiery mill, the displaced executives scraped together $13,000, started a spread house called Cabin Crafts Co. which now does the industry's largest single business - about $1,000,000 a year. These men brought professional designers into the industry, and even installed a few tufting machines - locally made...
...Wage-&-Hour law, and the Georgia tufters, whose working hours no time clock had ever measured, were out of luck. Rather than pay their tufters the law's wages, the bedspread makers bought tufting machines and moved production into factories. Most of the new factories sprang up around Dalton. The industry, now mechanized, grew faster than ever...
...country around Dalton is still Bedspread Land. The roads are hung on both sides with thousands of bedspreads for sale. In city department stores this year some $12,000,000 worth of bedspreads, 75% of them from Dalton, will sell at an average retail price of $5. Last week 1,000 girls (many of them from ex-tufting mountain families) flocked into the 50-odd Dalton spread factories, signing on in preparation for the fall production rush. By mid-September there will be 7,000 of them hard at work at the machines...