Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second time in a month, a strike paralyzed production at the German-owned and operated Bemberg and Glantztoff rayon plants in Elizabethton, Tenn. The A. F. of L. was organizing there to consolidate the first strike's gains when five workers were discharged. The company said they were drunk. But they were also members of the new union, so 25 other employes quit their posts in protest. More followed and before the operators could realize what had happened, 5,000 workers trooped idly through dusty little Elizabethton. Union leaders denied they had called the strike, said it was "spontaneous...
Last week Dr. Percy W. Toombs of Memphis, Tenn., reported the known data in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In brief they are: 1) X-ray-ing for a few seconds to get a photograph does not harm the unborn child, unless photographs are taken too frequently; 2) X-ray or radium doses strong enough to cause sterility or to destroy tumors cause abortions during the early months of pregnancy, or during the end of term monstrosities (of eyes, brain or spinal cord); 3) the younger the embryo, the greater the damage done...
...sell. The editors, fearing the paper would fall into unworthy hands, rushed about and got a company organized which bought the property for $950,000. Then came the panic of 1893. The Times barely escaped consolidation and, in 1896, welcomed the help of Adolph Simon Ochs of Chattanooga. Tenn. For $75,000 and his services he got, within four years, half of its stock, which was now increased to 10,000 shares...
Female Pilots. Amelia Earhart last week received a license to pilot transports. Of the 40 U. S. female pilots only she, Ruth R. Nichols of Rye, N. Y., Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie of Memphis, Tenn., and Lady Mary Heath of Manhattan have transport qualifications. Only Miss Omlie seems serious in this business. She is planning a flight this year. Miss Earhart makes a gratifying income by writing on flying and appearing at aviation shows. Lady Heath also appears professionally at the shows. Recently she started a concern to import planes. Miss Nichols, rich, is now flying about...
...Jackson, Tenn., Herbert Crane told his wife not to put the cat out. She did; he shot...