Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams settle into the race down the stretch, the attendance appears as considerable as ever, and the crowds of rabid U. S. gentry who mill through the turnstiles at the parks to watch the play, blaspheme the umpire, masticate peanuts, popcorn and chewing gum, are as diligent and enthusiastic as in the summers of yesteryear...
...meantime, ingenious statisticians have figured that the strike has cost the workers a loss in wages of $5,000,000 and the mill owners a loss...
Haggard, shopworn, peevish- 14,000 workers walked out into the dirty snow of Jan. 26, 1926. They would teach insolent mill owners not to cut wages...
...Louis Home-Trained Chorus (96) will attempt "grand opera" only once (Il Trovatore), will warble Iolanthe, The Red Mill, The Chocolate Soldier...
...said Mr. Coleman, when he was asked on that he based his opinion, "when the workers first struck 102 days ago the mill owners absolutely refused to negotiate with them. Now, however, they have offered to do so, with reservations, and in a week's time, they will have to concede to the strikers' demands. This strike is not a spasmodic revolt; it is a long, determined struggle on the part of about 1600 textile workers to obtain a decent American standard of living, a 48-hour week, and improved working conditions...