Word: mille
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most of the complaints before you were routine complaints . . . the backwash of run-of-the-mill NRA Administration. . . . My first attempt to [get at complaints] was the Darrow Board which I set up in good faith. ... It was a political wailing wall. . . . There was not one fair hearing before it. ... It packed the record with framed testimony .. . hazed witnesses...
...important reason is that the New England textile cities, building upon the growth of their industry, have an overhead which necessitates a forty dollar tax rate. As the competition of southern mills, unhampered by heavy taxes, made itself felt, northern taxable values declined as mills closed or moved out. Since the tax rate was already as high as was practicable, municipal expenses had to be reduced accordingly, and over since have been chasing down after valuations. But municipal debt burdens will decrease slowly, while relief expenditures will increase as years go on. No new industry can take advantage...
...futile for New England mill workers to blame their predicament on such inconsequential factors as the processing tax and Japanese competition. By inflexible economic laws, industry in the long run tends to locate in that section of the country where conditions are most favorable to its development. The future of New England will depend on the speed with which it recognizes this economic fact and begins to transfer its capital and labor into other fields of industrial activity...
...anthology of brilliant blossoms; epigrammarians will find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy memories, in feelings of regret and gratitude...
...Henry Mill of England patented a typewriter in 1714, William Burt of Detroit another in 1829 and a practical machine was developed by Sholes, Glidden & Soule in 1867. The first typewriters appeared on the market...