Word: mishawaka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in 1918, when Ruth McKenney was six and her sister Eileen was five, the movie matinees of Mishawaka. Ind., were a big thing in the lives of the children of the town. They lasted all afternoon, cost only a nickel, and showed a new installment of a serial every day. Since few of the audience could read, childish riots, peanut fights, screams and free-for-alls broke out when subtitles were too long. The fun lasted until the operator switched on the lights and bawled: "Shut up, you brats, or I'll throw you all out." Ruth...
Indiana: city water main extension in Decatur; demolition of school building in La Porte County; construction of artificial lake in St. Bernice; construction of city athletic field in Mishawaka; construction of various low log dams in Morgan County; ditch repairing in Miami County; city library book repairs in Terre Haute...
...Labor Department's employment service. He is a quiet, even-tempered, slightly bald man who likes to be with his family. In order to get back to Indiana where they were living he became a labor conciliator in 1926. He has mediated several Indiana cinema theatre strikes, the Mishawaka, Ind. Rubber Goods factory strike...
...strike occurred in the plant of Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Manufacturing...