Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember his virile War and Liberty Loan posters: Sure, We'll Finish the Job and Work As You Would Fight. In his youth Beneker visited Homestead and other towns where steel has left its stamp, and vowed: " Some day I'll have a studio in a steel mill." On February 1, 1919, he entered the employ of the Hydraulic Steel Co. of Cleveland, at the invitation of Whiting Williams and other far-seeing executives. The best poster artists of the nation lent their genius to the enlistment of recruits, the selling of bonds, the conservation of food, during...
Over the past decade, the Southern cotton mills have grown rapidly in proportion to the older New England industry. Under existing conditions many advantages to the South lay in this steadily growing competition. The Southern mills were nearer the raw material; cheaper and more tractable mill sites and more American labor are to be had there, too. In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line...
...Wages in the North are high; wages in the South low. The Department of Labor estimates that cotton-mill workers are paid 99.53% more in Massachusetts than in the South, and that other wages are at least proportional. In Georgia a Negro farm worker gets about $1.25 a day; in the Pennsylvania steel mills he is offered $4.50 a day and "all the overtime he wants...
...human conversation took place the day after the President's death as on any other week day, many editors-even editors of papers with national and international reputations-printed such extravagance as, the following: "It was probably the strangest silence in the city's history. From street, mill and skyscraper arose the numberless metallic sounds forming the ceaseless, surf-like roar of New York's monotone. But there was one entity of that roar which was almost missing, the sound of the human voice. . . . New York . . . spoke only when it had to,, and then for the most...
Tires? The five-year rumor that Mr. Ford would enter the tire business was revitalized by Wall Street suggestions that he was in the market for cotton mills which could be used to make tires. An offer was made for the Langley Cotton Mill at Langley, S. C., but Mr. Langley said that " so far as he knew," Mr. Ford was not in that picture...