Word: looms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal by a vote of 4 to 3. Still idle were 3,000,000 spindles, 50,000 looms. Mill workers continued to peddle fish. . . . Then the seven unions went to the polls again. Amid the yells of a blatant minority, they voted to accept the compromise. In the two leading unions the vote was close: weavers, 476 to 386; loom-fixers...
...Hartley, 40, poverty-stricken loom sweeper, won a $100,000 newspaper prize offered by Publisher Lord Rothermere, guessing the scores of 24 football matches played last week in London...
...Leary, one of four ganging brothers, seemed to be a retaliatory measure from Duffy headquarters. But the hearing of testimony germane to the murders gave way before the information of a stream of truck drivers, brewery bosses, alcohol dealers and other nondescript employees of what began to loom with increasing clarity as a monster liquor ring in the Philadelphia underworld...
...Summer tide of books recedes, these loom as foremost in significance...
...Duce v. II Papa. The cold and formal relations existing today between the Government of Italy and the Vatican are due, in no small measure, to that shadow of mutual suspicion still cast by the original anti-Roman Catholic proclivities of Signor Mussolini, which loom so large in the pages of Claudia...