Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning 600 Wisconsin guardsmen marched in, bivouacked on the broad lawns of the model village. But martial law was not declared and peaceful picketing was permitted...
Fortnight ago strikers at the plumbing plant of Kohler of Kohler had agreed to let a carload of coal pass their picket lines into the plant every two or three days. If they had not, Kohler Co. would have had to shut down its steam pumping plant and the model village which Walter Jodok Kohler built for his workmen would have been left without a drop of water. But last week, in spite of the agreement, strike pickets halted the engine, forced it to chuff back to Sheboygan with its car of coal...
Notable was the fact that most of the Kohler employes who live in the company's model village openly sympathized with Mr. Kohler. He had agreed to bargain with the A. F. of L. union but only so far as it represented his workers. The two men killed, along with most of the strikers, belonged to that portion of the plant's workers who live in nearby Sheboygan. Last week Kohler employes in Kohler presented their village president with a petition declaring that they wanted to go back to work on the old terms, objected to outsiders' organized violence...
...model for the Chicago picture is a pretty Rochester, N. Y. girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen...
When Mr. Fuchs developed the x-ray film he discovered that his model held her bobbed hair in place with metal hairpins, her stockings with metal clasps. Her skeleton is boyish-broad shoulders, narrow hips, big lungs and heart. Her only trouble, and that not yet serious, appears to be a sagging colon...