Word: industriale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The loss of no other city or area could be as ruinous to the Spanish Republic's fate as Barcelona's. Spain's most important seaport, its industrial mainspring, its metropolis, Barcelona in Rebel hands would probably lead directly to the conquest of the rest of Loyalist...
Ever since 1922, when Britain granted the 26 southern counties Free State status and set up the six northern counties as a separate Government, every English-hating Irishman has been determined that some day the industrial north and the agricultural south must become one nation. A handful of intransigent nationalists...
George A. Hormel was an industrial nonconformist. Practically ostracized industrially by other meat packers for stumping for a 30-hour week, he retired to California in 1927 and turned his business over to his son, Jay Catherwood Hormel.
The workman's protest jelled into an idea and in 1931 Geo. A. Hormel & Co. tried an experiment, offered its smokehouse employes a guaranteed annual wage to ease the shock of layoffs, the strain of rushes. Since then the company has made industrial history with a "straight-time" annual...
†If enough of U. S. industry followed this trend, it might effectively level the peaks and valleys in public buying power and also, therefore, in industrial production. This would help prevent any inventory gluts such as brought on Depression II.