Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been having labor trouble. National Dollar's women's dresses, once manufactured on the premises, more recently have been supplied by a factory in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinatown is the only part of labor-minded San Francisco without labor unions. Chinese remember what the old-line labor movement thought of them, are afraid they would be replaced with whites if they were paid the same wages. The best wages of any garment factory in Chinatown have been Joe Shoong's-$13.33 a week...
...chief accomplishment of Louis Dembitz Brandeis before his appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court was to get the Massachusetts Legislature to pass a law allowing savings banks to issue life insurance. That was in 1907. Despite the tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success. There are now 24 Massachusetts savings banks with life insurance departments, 117 more that act as agents. Massachusetts citizens can insure their lives for anything between $100 and $24,000. At the end of 1937 some 160,000 Massachusetts citizens or onetime Massachusetts citizens had policies...
...Brandeis economic faith is that efficiency decreases with size. Savings banks are small, decentralized. And of course their life insurance departments are controlled by the same State reserve laws that control all insurance companies. 2 ) Terms in most cases are more beneficial to the policyholders. Most old-line policies cannot be turned in for cash till after the third year and then there is a surrender charge. Savings bank policies can be turned in after six months; there is no surrender charge. 3) Savings bank policies are 25% to 50% cheaper than old-line policies comparable to those the savings...
Until last week no other State had copied Massachusetts. That, however, was not so surprising as that no big old-line insurance company protested with much enthusiasm when New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman began last January to persuade his Legislature to allow New York's savings banks to issue life insurance. When the Massachusetts law was passed the companies were still slightly groggy from the 1906 investigation by the Charles Evans Hughes Committee and they said little. But whenever the subject came up in other States they said plenty. In New York, however, opposition came chiefly...
...mill is designed for "tailor-made" production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons...