Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inauguration, Budget Chief Bert Lance suggested to U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer that the company's proposed price increase for tin-mill products was too high; Speer trimmed it to 4.8%. At week's end, officials of the United Steelworkers Union approved a new three-year contract that provides for an 800-an-hour increase over the life of the agreement. It also makes a modest start toward guaranteeing steelworkers lifetime job security. Union and company spokesmen disagreed on whether the contract, which needs rank-and-file approval, was inflationary...
...acres has been claimed by the Wampanoags in Massachusetts, the Pequots and Schaghticokes in Connecticut, the Narragansetts in Rhode Island, the Oneidas in New York. The Catawbas of South Carolina contend they are entitled to 144,000 acres that embrace the cities of Rock Hill and Fort Mill. The roll call of litigant tribes is like a Whitmanesque iteration: Miccosukee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Chippewa. Seven Oklahoma tribes-Kaw, Ponca, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Otoe, Osage, Creek-are shaping up a suit to assert a collective claim to the bed-and attendant water rights-of the Arkansas River. Of hundreds of controversies, however, most...
...Clinton, Mass., a faded, heavily Democratic mill town (pop. 13,300) west of Boston, friendly citizens applauded the President's every remark at a folksy town assembly. Two sons of Edward and Katherine Thompson, a merry middle-class Irish couple with whom Carter spent the night, even joked about having a Chief Executive in their home. "Should we stand when he comes in?" asked Edward Thompson, 27. "No," quipped his brother Richard, 16, "we're going to kneel...
...great polemical record-photographs - the work he did for the National Child Labor Committee after 1908. In the course of it, Hine traversed America, disguising himself and employing all sorts of subterfuges (his friends remembered him as a consummate role player) to get his camera into the factories, mills and mines where children worked. "I have seen their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game, where the odds are all against them," he wrote later. The veracity with which his lens recorded the pinched, pale, grimy faces of breaker boys...
...That is competitive with the rest of the industry, but below the unionized wage scales in some nontextile factories in communities where Stevens has plants. Says James Boone, a packer in Roanoke Rapids: "1 hate to stand in the check-cashing line at the bank behind the paper mill guys"-who make up to $6 an hour...