Word: milling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding for the Crimson were Skiddy Von State and Twnsend win-mill who figured prominently in ht scoring Saturday as they have all year...
...bargain last March, most observers sighed with relief, assumed that the threat of a great steel strike which had been hanging over the nation for months was ended. They reckoned, however, without Steel's major "independents" - Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, Jones & Laughlin, Crucible, Inland, American Rolling Mill-to whom Big Steel's concession was a shocking betrayal of the industry's traditional united front against unionism...
...Declaring himself tired of C. I. O. attempts to organize his workers, the general manager of Apex Hosiery Co., Philadelphia's biggest non-union hosiery mill, shut down his plant one day at noon, locking out 2,500 employes. Massing outside, they were joined by some 10,000 sympathetic workers from other mills. For a while the ugly-tempered crowd contented itself with milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line...
...rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood waters washed the logs over the piles driven to impound them, they might shoot away from the mill down the Rainy, into Lake of the Woods; if the river went down as far as it rose logs...
...farming. This plan has now been changed because the Chippewas prefer to live by Government checks rather than by agriculture. From now on the Indian timber lands will be cut on a selective plan, which means comparatively few acres each year, and the logs will be taken to mill by rail and truck instead of floated down roaring rivers in the spring by shouting men with peaveys and hobnailed boots...