Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Byrnes, Spartanburg attorney, onetime (1911-25) Representative and Senator Blease's unsuccessful opponent six years ago (TIME, Sept. 8). Organized Labor helped materially to turn out Senator Blease because he had voted for the Supreme Court nomination of John Johnston Parker and had failed to support textile mill strikers affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. Many another vote was cast against him for his defense of lynching, his frank avowal of being a drinking...
Relief. A total of 703 counties in 19 States have been certified by the Department of Agriculture as beneficiaries of freight rate reductions on livestock feed. The American Railway Association reported that 3,733 carloads of hay and mill feed had been shipped into the stricken counties at the emergency rate. In a few States highway construction was accelerated but in others no money was available for such extra work In Iowa and Nebraska crop conditions were comparatively good and no farm credits were required...
Meanwhile whales figured in news despatches from both coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...
...Columbus, Neb., containing a mass of misstatements reflecting on the flour millers of the state which we wish to emphatically controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour, Omaha in car lots, for that date was $6.50 per barrel. Bran...
Like many another New England mill, Pepperell Manufacturing Co. has power plants, water power rights. Last week it was announced that Cumberland plans to buy $2,400,000 worth of these non-milling assets from Pepperell. Millside power properties have played a large part in Mr. Insull's conquest of New England territory. In some cases he has bought the mill as well, running it through depression to boost power earnings. But last week he did not have to go further into the textile business. Pepperell, with such specialties as Lady Pepperell Sheets, makes money, last year made...