Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Male costumes shown at the First All-Union Style Show strikingly resembled the female garments except for a leaning toward brighter colors. New patterns in cloth avoided flowers, stripes, dots or other Capitalist commonplaces. Stressed instead were cogwheels, electric flashes, light bulbs, tractors, cotton mill spindles, atheistic symbols, airplanes, dirigibles and soldiers. In line with the Soviet Union's emphasis upon electrical development many fabrics represented stylized transmission lines & equipment, zigzags of high voltage or lightning. Particularly fetching and announced for either male or female wear is a new Soviet printed cotton cloth with a pattern of alternate red stars...
...interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters. Then Benjamin Moore started a 1,900-acre grove of its own, set up an oil-extraction mill in Gainesville, 77 mi. southwest of Jacksonville...
...hobbies are fishing and hunting on his Catskill estate. He has three sons, Reinhold, Curt and Julius. One is in the sales department, another in the manufacturing, a third handling finances. They were trained on sheep ranches, in mills abroad, in banks. In memory of a fourth son he established the Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation in 1922. It lends and gives money to apt children of employes. It helps families in sickness, runs a night school for employes and their families. Despite this paternalism, and despite the fact that many Forstmann workers are more skilled, hence higher-paid, than...
Miss Berkman is guilty of nothing but being a leader in the Lowell Mill Strike and of membership in the National Textile Workers Union, and since when has it been a crime for labor to organize for the protection of its rights? Yet she was jailed on a false charge which was afterwards changed, held without opportunity for ball until she contracted tuberculosis, and now is awaiting possible deporation as an "undesirable alien" to Poland, where there is a strong probability that she will face the dangerous persecution of the unfriendly Fascists. Sooner or later the public must realize this...
...June 1927 Paul Kosty, now 35, was working in the La Salle Steel Co. Plant at Hammond, Ind., at a bench on which hot steel bars from the rolling mill were clipped to a prescribed length. He leaned over as a bar shot out. It pierced his head, entering behind his left ear and protruding under his chin. The bar clipped off at 20 ft. of which 12 ft. had gone through his head. Kosty seized the bar with his hands and pulled the other 8 ft. through the hole. Besides a head wound he suffered scorched hands...