Word: mills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Lee Jones, a 31-year-old mill-hand of Greensboro, Ala., last week's doings in the U. S. Senate were good news. Negro Jones had been arrested, charged with jumping on the running board of a car to kidnap Mrs. Robert Knox Greene, wife of a white planter. When Mrs. Greene's friends began to gather he did not need to be told what familiar, ugly thought they had in mind. At the crucial moment when Sheriff Calvin Hollis was trying to calm the crowd, up stepped Planter Robert Knox Greene himself. How Planter Greene, a cousin...
...White boasts a $5,000.000 surplus in his State treasury. All homesteads valued at less than $2,500 are currently exempt from State taxes. In his opening message to the legislature last week, Governor White expressed the pious hope that all homesteads be exempted, not only from the four-mill State tax but from the 15 to 7O-mill taxes levied by town & county governments. Without specifying exactly how this was to be done or recommending any substitute taxes to make up an estimated $7,500,000 loss in revenue, Governor White declared: "The home is a home, whether...
...years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such...
Monopoly? Homer Cummings and the Department of Justice have for the last few months been looking into the way the newsprint mills fix what to charge the publishers. Formerly newsprint prices fluctuated as restlessly as any lover of free competition could desire. But in more recent times (and consistently since the newsprint industry tasted the sweets of NRA) it has announced its next year's contract price all at once-and the price is generally the lowest asked by any mill turning out more than 100,000 tons a year. In the majority of cases this mill has been...
...travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches off to the Silent City of Rocks, 25 sq. mi. of massive granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers, skyscrapers, toadstools. Eighty-two miles from Pocatello is the largest potato-flour mill in the world. At Twin Falls, 42 miles farther, Shoshone Falls drops 212 ft. From the walls of Snake River Canyon, 32 miles on, Idaho's famed Thousand Springs gush enough water to supply all the big cities...