Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Beverly Knitting Mill went on strike for higher wages. Like several disgusted employers before him Owner L. G. Griffith explained: "All right. I'm through. You run it." Three strikers took him up. formed a new $25.000 corporation, hired onetime Owner Griffith as sales manager, signed a bargaining agreement with the union, reopened for work...
Mebbe while you're at it you better include the sorghum lickers too as associate members. Theys a lot of them round here that got nitiated in that art long as Hank Smith was runnin his sorghum mill...
...result of a police raid on overnight parkers in the vicinity of the Houses, the dawn broke yesterday morning with red tickets fluttering from 25 or 30 windshield wipers along Dunster, Holyoke, Plimpton, and Mill Streets. Not only is the usual "number has been taken" clause there, but stamped on the bottom, it asks the bearer to present the tag at Traffic Division within 24 hours--before 5.30 o'clock...
...from expensive northern spruce to cheap southern pine for paper pulp. After the War when every competitor was moving south to use cheap slash pine, Union still sat in a sleepy, War-fattened lethargy. In 1928 it was so grossly out of line that it actually built a sulphate mill in the spruce forests of Tacoma. Next year this white elephant was shut down at a loss of $2,060,000. Meanwhile Union lost money steadily in all the boom years. In 1929 it lost $750,000. In 1930, it sold less than a sixth...
...cotton customer, stopped buying it in order to conserve her gold. Brokers were quick to remember that cotton prices broke at the onset of the World War, then rose to a thumping 30? a lb. Hopes for increase in domestic consumption were dim last week. Anticipating labor troubles, cotton mills operated at capacity early this year. After the break in prices in July, they curtailed operation to reduce inventories. But sales of cotton goods have lagged and large quantities of cloth are still on hand. Cotton mill activity last week fell below September of last year...