Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheer the Rangers, disliking the Maroons for beating the Canadians. And in a furious game in which, when the referee disallowed a Montreal goal, the crowd threw overcoats, hats, papers, garbage, and bottles on the ice-in which Miller whirled his arms and legs like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank Boucher stabbed twice through the Maroon defense. No team representing an American city has won an important hockey trophy since Seattle took the Stanley Cup title in 1917. All the players...
...improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which permits 50% increases or decreases by the President independent of Congress. The Coolidge record is 18 increases and five decreases, the latter including lowered rates on bobwhite quail, mill-feed, paintbrush handles. President Coolidge has raised the tariff on such important commodities as wheat, butter, pig iron...
...fighter slumped in his corner. To the tense manager muttering instructions in his ear he snarled helplessly. Newspapermen in the fringe of harsh white light around the ringside heard the manager snarl something about "quitter." The fisticuffer, despairing, defiant, jumped to his short legs and went through the mill. Panting, pounding, suffering, he hammered the hard little man dancing a short arm's length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted...
Bright lights in the gloom were last week's reports that the Ford Motor Co. was employing 92,317 (the week before, 91,616) and that the Youngstown, Ohio, district would absorb surplus steel mill labor as soon as spring weather permitted construction operations...
...many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag Co. of Manchester, N. H. (largest textile mill in the world) announced a 10% cut, and the game was on. The Newmarket Manufacturing Co. of Newmarket, N. H., followed suit. In the huge textile centre of Fall River, Mass...