Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheels for the mill...
...Henry Mill of England patented a typewriter in 1714. The firm of Sholes, Glidden & Soulé developed a practical machine in the U. S. in 1867, and typewriters began to be marketed by Remington in 1874. First U. S. patent on a writing-machine, however, was issued in 1829 to a remarkable man named William Austin Burt. On this device, in March 1830, Inventor Burt whacked out the first letter typewritten in the U.S. Last week the Smithsonian Institution proudly announced that it had acquired and would shortly display this message...
...Homestead, Pa. plant of Carnegie-Illinois, biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, the company union promptly accepted the raise and a grimy group of pit men lined up for news photographers, singing Happy Days Are Here Again (see cut, p. 26). But most of the Carnegie-Illinois sheet & tinplate mill workers' representatives held out for a 15% raise. At Carnegie-Illinois' Duquesne plant, company union men balked at the cost-of-living scale. They claimed that talk of genuine negotiation was nonsense, said the 10% raise had been arbitrarily thrust at them...
...public schools of Springfield, Ohio were open on Election Day. But those of the 68,000 citizens of Springfield who went to the polls had to decide whether Springfield's 12,000 school children should have a much longer holiday. Up for a vote was a proposed three-mill property levy to raise $240,000 a year to keep the penniless city schools open for the winter. Springfield voted the levy down 2-to-1. Sure enough the schools, out of operating funds and already owing $66,000 in back salaries to their 381 teachers, three days later shut...
Labor into Unions? Not a motor maker but a Labor sympathizer once described Detroit as a "workingman's paradise." Automobile plants are clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time...