Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Riverside and Dan River Mills in Danville, Va., one of the largest textile mills in the renascent South (it employs 6,000 people), curtailed its working week from five to four days. The New England mills have been cutting operating costs by reducing wages (TIME...
...were colder than the stars. Food was scarce at Valley Forge. The general, his bleak face pinched by the agony of that winter's cold, could promise no comfort. The spring came slowly and the army stayed through a warm June, when trout jumped at twilight in Schuylkill River...
...plan now is for the entire Cadet Corps to embark at West Point on Friday afternoon, October 19, on a vessel of the Fall River Line, and steam into Boston harbor on Saturday morning. The return would be made Saturday night...
Then in 1821 across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
...Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag Co. of Manchester, N. H. (largest textile mill in the world) announced a 10% cut, and the game was on. The Newmarket Manufacturing Co. of Newmarket, N. H., followed suit. In the huge textile centre of Fall River, Mass., the Stevens Manufacturing Co. and the American Printing Co. lead the way. Just before the fire last week (see p. 11) the Fall River Cotton Manufacturers' Association announced that all its members had put into effect a 10% wage cut. This included such potent firms as the Algonquin Printing...