Word: millhands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt himself, a small man, clean-shaven, weighing never more than 150 Ibs.. was himself determined to follow in his father's footsteps. Like T.R., he went to Harvard, and like T.R., he went to work roughing it-two years, starting as a $7-a-week millhand in a carpet factory at Thompsonville, Conn., two years as a bond salesman in Wall Street, whose leaders hated his father. Like T.R., he joined the Army as the U.S. got into war; in June 1917, a Reserve Army officer, he went to France with the 26th Infantry Regiment, First Division...
...largely to steel-producing areas; the overall U.S. economy is too strong to be seriously staggered. A two-week strike, say the economists, would have very little effect on manufacturing because inventories (except in specialized heavy construction) are comfortably large. On the union side of the picture, many a millhand, his vacation pay already earned, is delighted to escape the blistering heat of the plants in July...
...other industries, textilemen were faced with rising production costs. But their problem was worse. Featherbedding was suffocating the highly organized mills of New England. For example, some union contracts specified that a millhand could tend no more than six looms, even though workers in unorganized factories were tending 18 or more. Thus many of the high-cost New England plants became marginal producers, or lost money heavily. Instead of shutting down marginal mills as demand fell off, most of the industry kept them going, often at a loss, in a vague hope that business would improve...
Mary Williamson was only a Yorkshire millhand until Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, the "Father of Physical Culture," put a tape around her torso (bust 38½, hips 39). After that, life speeded up for Mary. First, in a nationwide contest, Macfadden crowned her "Great Britain's Perfect Woman"; then he gave her the star turn in his physicultural demonstrations-that of springing nightly off a high table and landing "with both feet together on his breadbasket."* Between springs he poured into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol...