Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody knew that the Lord was supposed to soften the heart of John Downey Cooper Jr., 69, owner and son of a founder of the Harriet-Henderson mills. Long regarded with paternal affection by his employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year-old contract a year ago. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that...
Long Division. In mid-February, John D. reopened the mills with nonunion workers, mostly farmers recruited from as far away as Virginia. Despite the presence of more than 100 state highway patrolmen, violence flared at the mill gates. Coming in the role of peacemaker in March, Governor Luther H. Hodges, himself a onetime textile executive, helped to achieve a settlement, publicly accused Cooper of "misleading" him when the settlement blew up. In May, behind the bayonets of 300 National Guardsmen, the mills resumed three-shift production, with fewer than 100 union members at work...
...wishes the strike would go away. High School Principal Frederick R. Kesler believes "a lot of things have been said in this town that will take a long time to heal," worries that the strike may erect a permanent wall of hatred between children from the town and the mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders of the old Confederate heritage, likens the strikers to "those who followed Pettigrew, Fender and Pickett to the heights of Gettysburg...
...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
...When many students were shipped to Germany in 1949, Maryland professors followed them, setting up six centers to serve an unexpected crush of 1,851 applicants. Enrollment grew and grew. At 204 centers in 23 countries, more than 130,000 G.I.s and dependents have now been through the Maryland mill. (Up to 75% of a G.I.'s tuition is paid by the armed forces...