Word: milles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other leader was apple-cheeked, 85-year-old Uncle Joe Grundy, the wealthy Quaker mill-owner whose name has long been a synonym for high-tariff Republicanism and who has fed and guided the forces of Pennsylvania's conservatism for nearly half a century. Uncle Joe is quite deaf, scorns such contraptions as hearing aids, and conserves his energy. While he planned the strategy for his camp this week, the tactics were in the hands of his handyman, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett, who doubles in brass as president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy, Owlett & Co. were...
...Duff presented his bill, they yowled for vengeance. To raise an extra $133 million in state revenue he increased cigarette taxes from 2? to 4? a pack, slapped new taxes on beer (½? pint) and soft drinks (1? per 12 ounces). Then he prevented repeal of the five-mill tax levied on manufacturers' capital stocks and franchises...
...Manville, R.I. textile mill-the town's only industry-closed down. Said a worker: "You don't feel right and you think 'what's wrong?' And then it comes to you: the mill is quiet. We've been listening to that noise all our lives, even in our sleep. Makes a hum, kind of. It makes you feel funny to have it quiet...
...meanest medic had not been caught in an abortion mill, had not brazenly advocated socialized medicine, or neglected a patient. Nothing of the sort. He had contrived to keep a broken-hipped Illinois Civil War veteran alive (he lived to his 106th birthday) by denying him his chief pleasure in life: attending G.A.R. exercises on Memorial...
...spring of 1929 he was sent to the restless South. The "lint-heads" in the Tennessee and Carolina mills, ridden with pellagra, beaten down by the stretch-out, were showing signs of kicking over the belts and bobbins. Beal went to North Carolina, where he organized and directed the Gastonia strike (at the Manville-Jenckes Co.'s Loray Mill). One night there was violence, and Gastonia's Police Chief 0. F. Aderholt was killed...