Word: industriale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year C.I.O. began to organize Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Along with great Metropolitan, the union also took on the others of the Big Three in industrial insurance. Prudential and John Hancock, set out to enroll the companies' 53,000 industrial agents, whose principal duty is to trudge from...
The union heads chose industrial insurance rather than ordinary life, fire, etc., because they thought industrial agents would have more grievances, would be more amenable to union advances. The agents shortly verified this premise. In affidavits submitted to NLRB and New York State Labor Relations Board, in testimony before a...
Then industrialization began to snowball in the South. In 1914, eight leading Southern cities had an estimated industrial production of $418,017,000; last year this figure had more than tripled under the influx of such industries as textiles and wood pulp, moving from the North to the South to...
*Present rates for carrying cotton goods: 1) from Gadsden, Ala. to Chicago (670 miles) $1 per 100 lb., from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis...
The adjoining map shows how (Texas excluded) the South's six biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities...