Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chaucerians and Tennysonians felt sorely bereaved when there burned to the ground the 648-year-old Grantchester Mill, mentioned by Poet Chaucer and hymned by Poet Tennyson in his "The Miller's Daughter...
...fears lest it emerge bedraggled. So the Smith Special hurried until it reached Blackstone, one of Massachusetts' most safely Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...
...factory whistles shrilled at the Brown Derby's approach as it passed nor as it vanished. Mill owners had turned their steam on for Candidate Hoover, had (See p. 15) kept every whistle at full toot so long as he was in hearing. Now mill hands left their piece work, ran to big windows and yelled, forced numerous mills to shut down from five minutes to an hour...
Woonsocket, Manville, Albion. As the Derby waved wide and high, cheers swelled. Berkeley, Valley Falls. All along the roads, school children and mill wives shrilled "Hello, Al! Hello, Al!" Central Falls and Pawtucket, hulloos and shrieks ? then Providence...
...week strike was over. Although accepting the 5% wage cut, the mill workers obtained an agreement that any further reduction would be preceded by 30-day notice. Estimates of strike cost to workers & mills were as high...