This story is published in partnership with Belt Magazine and is part of a series supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine. In the winter of 1946, Perkins Pringle boarded the first leg of a 950-mile train ride from Durant, Mississippi, to Akron, Ohio—the Rubber Capital of the World.Web
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The ad stated, "It is hoped that those citizens having a knowledge of families, having children destitute of employment, will do an act of public benefit by directing them to the institution [cotton mill]." 27 In New England, the allure of employing children in the mills was thought by one editorial writer to be so strong that it led ...Web
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The disputes had real consequences for workers. In Birmingham, for example, the steelworkers union engaged in an often violent raid against the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelterworkers local there. The USWA used the communist issue to turn enough white workers against Mine Mill leaders to win a representation election.Web
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Textile workers built unions, led major strikes and fought racism starting in the 1920s in the South's largest industry. The heaviest concentration of textile mills was in North Carolina. Charlotte was the Southern industry's center point since its inception during the post-Reconstruction era, with many factories ringing its perimeter ...Web
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When the United States entered World War I, the U.S. Army, itself a constabulary force of less than 200,000 troops, had a dental staff of just 86 officers, a ratio of roughly one dentist for every 2,350 patients. At war's end on Nov. 11, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces had swelled to more than 4.7 million troops and the Army Dental ...Web
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This article takes the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American sociologist C. Wright Mills as a cue to revisit his legacy but also the value of sociology today. It argues …Web
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The ongoing energy crisis in Europe has shown how nations will experience "growing pains" from a switch to renewable sources of energy including wind power, according to experts who spoke to ...Web
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The latter's mills and boardinghouses soon fell victim to the urban renewal programs of the 1960s, along with the tenement neighborhood of Little Canada. Mill employment all but disappeared, and nothing had yet taken its place. The remaining mill buildings seemed to be bleak reminders of an era of hard work and meager reward.Web
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The Wm. J. Mills display at the East End Seaport Museum in Greenport. (Credit: Grant Parpan) Robert's son Bill Mills, Jamie and Bob's father, is credited with establishing the company's decades-long relationship with Boston Whaler. For more than 40 years, Wm. J. Mills & Co. had been the sole supplier of canvas for the top boat …Web
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Also the mini-mills have concentrated on relatively simple, low-value commodities (such as wire rod and concrete reinforcing bars), leaving the more complex products—in which economies of scale may be significant— to the large, integrated producers. ... Balance of payments adjustment has been a prime issue in the international monetary ...Web
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A version of this article appears in print on, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Europe Having Problems Harnessing Wind Energy. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | SubscribeWeb
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Serrated flow in a Ni–Co–Cr-base superalloy was studied in three microstructural conditions (SUB, SUBA, and SUPER) from 25 to 750 °C by tensile test at initial strain rates ranging from 8 × 10−5 to 3 × 10−3 s−1. The results showed that the SUB and SUBA samples had fine grain size of about 9 μm, whereas the SUPER samples had …Web
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A postcard featuring a lumber mill in Hart, Mich. Handwritten on the back is the following: "Hart, Mich. Sep. 8. Dear Winona, just a line Dad went in a big ditch as he went around a corner. But no ...Web
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This is a brief history of the aluminum industry in Arkansas and the essential role that this industry played during World War II. Aluminum was the metal of choice for the fabrication of military ...Web
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Mills' sociology focuses on substantive problems of modern industrial societies. He identified five overarching problems: 1) alienation; 2) moral insensibility; 3) threats to …Web
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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Edgar L. Mills, 25, of Tampa, Florida, killed during World War II, was accounted for Feb. 13, 2023.In the summer of …Web
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Mills so passionately wrote about, is very much a product of mid-twentieth century modernity. He was writing after the horrors of the two world wars and the ascendancy of "mass society." Today many of the problems that Mills diagnosed are very much still with us. However our "socioscape" has dramatically changed.Web
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This short article updates Mills' essay, closely following Mills' ideas while employing more contemporary language and …Web
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For over 180 years, Johnson Woolen Mills has produced top quality wool outerwear, including shirts, jackets, pants, and wool accessories proudly made in the USA. Skip to content Free Shipping on all orders $200+ (USA orders only) MENS MENS Northwoods X …Web
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In This Article. Long before the OPEC gas crisis of the 1970s, Americans who owned cars in the 1940s were limited to the amount of gasoline they could buy due to the consequences of World War II. Starting in early 1942, gasoline was deemed a precious commodity and, due to its limited supply, was needed to fuel our planes, tanks, Jeeps, …Web
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The First World War not only had a profound effect on the lives of the American people, it greatly changed the US economy, over time bolstering employment and business. While preparing for war in the early twentieth century, the United States had to flex its domestic muscles and mobilize its economy for the first time.Web
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Mills followed a political ideology known as the "new left", where they campaigned for social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, …Web
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Adding to these problems was the absence of President Wilson, who remained in Paris for six months, leaving the country leaderless. The result of these factors was that, rather than a celebratory transition from wartime to peace and prosperity, and ultimately the Jazz Age of the 1920s, 1919 was a tumultuous year that threatened to tear the ...Web
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