Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feud between two Lancashire mill owners, Messrs. Jefferson and Mosscrop, an untoward romance between their respective offspring, Rosie and Reggie, Silas P. Mallinson, an American inventor, whose ingenious little device enables Owner Jefferson to turn the tables, as the saying is, upon Owner Mosscrop,--are the well worn cogs on which this obsolete old piece of dramatic machinery heavily revolves. Needless to say, Owner Jefferson bluntly refuses to countenance the romance, but the combined efforts of Owner Mosscrop who undergoes a sudden reformation of character, of Son Reggie who announces bumptiously that he is full of "grit and determination...
Recent development in the gasoline business would have interested John Stewart Mill-they illustrate many of his cardinal economic tenets. Gasoline refiners and distributors have attempted to promote "price-stability," and at rates quite profitable to themselves. But out in California many companies were growing tired of carrying vast stocks of crude oil. When the "stabilizers" got the price of gasoline up to high levels-the east, the California independents accordingly refined their oil, shipped the gasoline cheaply through Panama, and started a lively price-war in the Atlantic seaboard states. The Standard Oil companies were forced to meet...
Through the good offices of the Government, a textile strike, three weeks old, was ended. Under the terms of the agreement, the workers went back to the mills at the old scale of wages, pending an inquiry which is to recommend a new wage agreement. The strike was caused by the mill owners' announcement of an 8% reduction in wage...
...Tientsin an angry mob rushed the Paocheng mill. One Burton, U. S. manager with his wife and family, was forced to flee. The police first clubbed the irate Chinese with the butts of their rifles. This being ineffective, they fired low into the seething crowd, perforating many legs...
Next day an adjacent Japanese mill was stormed. The police were again brought into conflict with the strikers of whom they arrested 300, killed some, wounded many...