Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some few weeks ago we noticed an article in the New York Sun using the word NEWSCASTING. This appealed to us as a most appropriate expression, so that we were led to refer to our 10-Minute Radio News Service talks on Mexico under that term. We have since learned...
The answer is that in early cotton spinning days, a peculiarly damp climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning...
Laborite Laissez Faire. Efforts to end the strike were not strenuously made, last week, by Britain's new Labor Government. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald seemed to think he needed a few days vacation, took it at his rustic Scottish home in Lossiemouth. Even kinetic Margaret ("Maggie") Bondfield, onetime shop...
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...
The Insulls mean to continue their practical philanthropy, to buy more New England textile plants and thus "forestall financial ruin and consequent distress to numerous communities through enforced idleness of thousands of workers." In other words, having bought big stakes in New England, the Insulls must now help keep New...