Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet, ending with a theatre party, the celebration provided a happy opportunity for more than 200 big retailers from all sections to mix fun with business, for the occasion coincided with the opening of the buying season for autumn lines. Much was the talk of rising prices in both woolen goods (up 33%) and tailored product (up 10% to 15%). Serious were the discussions of trends in colors (gayer) and styles (toward draped models). Hart Schaffner & Marx's Golden Jubilee was pushed for its full promotional value but it also had genuine historical interest...
They tilled the soil, in succeeding years dammed the river for power, built woolen and flour mills, dyeworks, woodworking shops. Each adult had a coupon book worth $40 to purchase a year's necessities at a village store. Community kitchens provided meals for everyone. Rule-breakers were punished by being excluded from religious services...
...common (voting) stock to every adult, issued preferred stock in proportion to years of service. They now work for wages. Nevertheless, Amana Society still provides free medical care and burial, gives its members a 10% discount at general stores, a 665% discount at drug stores. Chief Amana products: fine woolen blankets...
...textiles. Not content with tying up or bothering, to a greater or lesser degree, the coal industry, the steel industry, the automobile industry, the shoe industry, and a number of other industries. Mr. Lewis has now turned toward the 1,250,000 workers involved in the manufacture of woolen, cotton, rayon, jute, and other clothing goods. Eighting northern as well as southern manufacturers, John demands a minimum wage of eighteen dollars, four dollars higher than N.R.A., a maximum hour week of thirty-five hours, and recognition of the C.I.O...
...true that most of the southern mills have dropped back from their brief N.R.A. standards. The northern mills, in particular the American Woolen Company of Lawrence, the Perennial Dye and Print Works of Rhode Island, the Pequot and Newmarket Mills in Massachusetts, and the Nashua, and Pacific mills in New Hampshire, against all of which Lewis is gunning, are, how-ever, paying the highest wages in their history and operating on a forty-hour a week basis. These companies are not in strong enough positions, since the last really good textile year was 1927, to withstand labor troubles at this...