Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smaller sit-down strikes were disrupted by various means. In Philadelphia 60 sit-downers in a clothing factory were ousted by two policemen. In Decatur, Ill., 47 sit-downers in a wallpaper mill walked out when a sheriff threatened to oust them by force. In Los Angeles eleven sit-downers in a bakery quit, after the proprietor, with police aid, had prevented food being delivered to them and confined them for 48 hours to a diet of their own pies (twelve kinds...
...total volume of Japanese exports, 2,725,109,000 yd. in 1935, this tidy increase was negligible. It was also negligible compared to the total annual U. S. production of about 7,000,000,000 yd. But underlying these figures were two facts which gave U. S. mill owners cause for uneasiness. The first was that Japanese exports to the U. S. were concentrated in one major cloth classification and two or three minor ones. Japan accounted last year for about half the U. S. consumption of bleached goods, cotton rugs and cotton velveteens. The second fact was that invalidation...
...Great O'Malley" is a stupid, run-of-the-mill picture which divides its time between half-hearted humor and blatant sentimentality. The theme is old, yet one that can be convincing if it is well done. This time it is not particularly well done...
Newark's "Dr." Harley was called both an osteopath and a chiropractor last week. According to an imposing certificate on his office wall, issued by a diploma mill called the "American Academy of Medicine & Surgery," he is a "Doctor of Medicine & Master Diagnostician." Subscribers to his anti-birth plan submitted photographs of themselves in street clothes and in the nude, and received numbered identification cards...
...sell, Mr. Atlas' dynamic tension is a continual thorn, particularly when used, as it always is, with the phrase "the world's most perfectly developed man." Mr. Atlas talks about the beauty of his body with the impersonal pride of a steelmaster describing the finest rolling mill in existence. What his competitors question is how much of Mr. Atlas' physical assets was acquired by dynamic tension...