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...Riverside & Dan River Mills strad dle the Dan River, are connected by covered concrete bridges. Normally the personnel numbers 4,500 operatives. President Fitzgerald, whose father was one of the company's founders, started at 17 to work in the plant. When he became its head he organized the mills into a thoroughgoing industrial "republic" with himself as president. He built a $250,000 Y. M. C. A. for his workers, supplied them with neat houses, free electricity. Because he believes that his deafness was caused by poor medical attention when he was a boy, he provided plant doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On the Dan | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...made a ukulele that can be heard a half a mile away. Ukuleleman Mossman once worked for fifteen years to make a perfect violin, gave it up finally on the grounds that the violin was not a local instrument. His ukuleles since, have earned him the title of "Hawaiian Strad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do Re Mi | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...where it was reposing as guarantee for $1.75. At the station house a man familiar with violins looked closely at the ancient " box." He was vastly interested. He had a violin maker open the instrument. Inside was the label-" Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonensis, faciebat anno 1723." Experts said that the "Strad" was genuine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blind Man's Strad | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...Overture, "Strad lla," Flotow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tonight's Promenade Concert. | 5/29/1897 | See Source »

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