Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent recession in Massachusetts' economy has been accentuated by the strife in the textile industry. Lower costs in southern mills have forced many manufacturers to desert New England while others have attempted to economize by cutting wages. When management recently demanded a ten-cent across the board pay cut seven weeks ago, textile workers earning a base pay of $1.09 1/2 per hour, walked off the job throughout New England. Mill owners in Maine and New Hampshire, last week, decided not to press for a wage cut and the workers returned to the mills, but because the Massachusetts employers remain...
...might prove satisfactory in the short run, the long term effects of deliberately causing the unemployment of 18,000 workers will probably increase pressure on Congress to boost the minimum wage. Such a bill is now before Congress, and a sudden dislocation of this area's economy, such as mill operators now threaten, will increase public pressure for its enactment. With a higher minimum wage, manufacturers will find that costs of producing in the South are no lower than New England operation...
...final parliament to ratify the Paris accords, rearming 500,000 West Germans within a Western European Union. Next week, at a full-dress NATO meeting in Paris, the Germans will be accepted as partners in the Atlantic Alliance. The biggest remaining snag-Franco-German differences over a Saar steel mill-was ironed out last week when Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay met in Bonn and disposed of the awkward details...
Political Scents. In Brewton, Ala., the Brewton Standard polled its readers to find out whether they favored the proposed construction of a local paper mill, announced that 3,936 had voted "to smell," only eleven "not to smell...
...bonny woman," said a mill girl as the red and black Rolls-Royce with the royal standard fluttering above its radiator crept through a Lancashire cotton town one sunny day last week. From the car window Queen Elizabeth II smiled at her loyal Lancastrians and waved a gloved hand. It was the Queen's first state visit to the grimy industrial county where 5,000,000 sturdy English folk spin the bulk of Britain's cotton textiles, mine a goodly share of its coal. She had come with her husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope...