Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impromptu. But at the last minute a few white ladies changed their minds about being aloof. Led by Y.W.C.A. Secretary Mrs. Lula Carr, they met the First Lady at the train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill...
First real test of the policy will come on cotton-mill wages where the problem is vastly complicated by traditional New England v. Southern differentials, and where wages are far lower than "Little Steel." Here WLB will have to unscramble how much of a raise, if any, its new policy would allow to cover the higher cost of living; how much raise, if any, is in order because textile wages in general are relatively low; and how much extra raise, if any, Southern labor should get because its present pay is lower than up North...
Taking possession of Wadsworth Houses, which has been occupied by the Department of Military Science since the first World War, the central office of the Personnel Relations Department has been moved from Legman Hall where it formerly had its offices. Wartime expansion, which caused the Mill Set Department to move its headquarters to the SAE house was also responsible for this shift...
...lives in a brick house at the foot of the Continental Divide, practices medicine when it suits him, collects his accounts if he feels his patients are able to afford it, devotes eight hours a day to reading and quoting Adam Smith, Paracelsus', John Stuart Mill...
...Other dividend cutters were Sperry Corp., farm-machinery maker Deere & Co., American Rolling Mill, undie-maker Munsingwear...