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Word: special (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chambers of Commerce told the Northern mill operators about cheap, unorganized white labor in the South, abundant water power, lenient mill laws (the 72-hour week, night work for women and children), special tax exemptions, proximity to the textile industry's raw material, King Cotton. Mill after mill closed in New England to reopen in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. The labor was new, but the proprietors were mostly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Southern Stirrings | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Dieu Herrick! In a special railway baggage car - redecorated with potted plants and burning candles to resemble a chapelle ardente - the remains of Myron Timothy Herrick left Paris for Brest by special train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Under Two Flags | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Newspaper Genius Lord Northcliffe took him on, pitched him into the kaleidoscopic career of a special correspondent. He covered royal weddings in Spain, religious troubles and riots in France, Stomach Tax in Canada, celebrities and murders and mysteries at home. Out of his heterogeneous experience he retains an exaggerated admiration for "the clean and decent poor" (famed Backbone of England) and for "the brotherhood of working journalists, salt of the earth." For criminals, his specialty, he has neither admiration nor sympathy-"not even a sneaking sympathy. They are a little less interesting than lunatics, a little less romantic than sewermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Mass | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...United Press, widely ramified outside of the U. S., takes special pride, and much of its profit, in its South American service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: U. P. Proclamation | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Doctors, lawyers, teachers, many another member of the professional class, can enter upon a career only after long training, special licenses, impressive degrees. But anyone with a little money and an obliging wholesaler can open a small retail business. Painful is this situation to Professor Paul D. Converse, retail business expert at the University of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: License | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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