Word: piedmonte
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...seven-day week. Most news concerned the textile industry, pride of the Blue Eagle, first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from 35 to 37½ At Manchester, Conn. 1,200 silk workers threatened to strike against a 5% to 20% wage...
...Einaudi told how the king was forced to issue an edict on February 7, 1848, granting the constitutional government Cavour advocated, when a revolution broke out in Austrian dominated Piedmont in that year. Cavour's greatest work took place when the preparations were made for the inception of the democratic system of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies. At this time Cavour was the only figure of the day to work on the specific problems involved, and by his efforts and wide knowledge gained by studying first-hand the parliamentary bodies in England and France, he brought the new system...
Richard Joshua Reynolds chose the name Camel for the cigaret which revolutionized the tobacco industry because he liked animal names and because Camel was easy to pronounce. Before Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell...
...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...
Born. To Umberto, 30, Crown Prince of Italy, and Marie Jose, 28, Princess of Piedmont, sister of King Leopold of the Belgians: their first child; in Naples. Name: Maria...