Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing that the cotton executives before him are embroiled in a wage dispute with 400,000 Lancashire mill employes, the Prime Minister concluded warmly: "The record of partnenship in the cotton trade between capital and labor is a very great one. You have stood together. The men who work for you today are the grandsons of the men who tightened their belts and helped to carry Lancashire through the days of the Civil War in America. Think two or three times before you sacrifice a position like that...
...retail merchandising, two companies; department store work, in Boston, New York, and Washington; security analyst in New York City; insurance audit solicitors, in New York City; chemical administration or sales, in New York City; label and carton company, in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Office and bank fixtures company, saleswork; cotton mill manufacturing; moving picture field, general administration work; fruit and sugar production in the tropics; and electrical manufacturing, in La Salle. Illinois...
...Sandino from entering such valuable territory. . . . My brothers and I are not in politics down there, and we have nothing to do with Wall Street. . . . From the meagre information I have the losses from looting our movable property may run to $100,000; but if the pipe line and mill plant have been destroyed the loss might run to $3,000,000 . . . and the owners would face ruin. ... I guess this is what comes of investing one's money in foreign countries...
...president of the United Drug Co. and director of a dozen other important New England industries, decided that, as long as they intended to "rejuvenate" some New England community, they should begin with stricken Fall River. Mr. Loring put investigators to work, who soon found that Fall River cotton mill owners were in the mood for merging and refinancing. Such action required banking facilities, which Fall River lacked...
...method of forcing a balance between the manufacturing costs and selling costs of fabrics which New Bedford and neighboring Taunton, Mass., textile makers adopted last week was to reduce wages. The New Bedford Silk Mills cut pay by 25%, and at once 140 employes walked out. Twenty-seven cotton mills announced 10% pay cuts for the beginning of this past week and 2,571 mill hands immediately voted to go on strike. The three local newspapers are condemning both wage reductions and strike...