Sentences with phrase «in textile mills»

His great grandfather, an Irish immigrant, was grievously injured while he worked in the textile mills.

He photographed children in coal mines, in meatpacking houses, in textile mills, and in canneries.

During the mid-1800s, the development of Yorkshire terriers originated in Yorkshire, England, where the dogs were employed as hunters of rats and vermin in the textile mills.

The development of the Yorkshire Terrier started as settlers came from Scotland to Yorkshire in the 1800's to work in the textile mills and mines, bringing with them their little dogs that hunted rats and served as their companions living with them in their homes.

Overall, this breed has had a humble past, being extensively used in textile mills, factories and coal mines for the purpose of keeping the vermin population under control.

Originally used for catching rats and mice in textile mills, Yorkies are energetic and inquisitive.

Now, not only his spirit, but the ghosts of hundreds of children who worked in his textile mills run rampant throughout the place, causing all sorts of mischief.

In this new play, set in turn - of - the century Philadelphia, children Julia and Gus work 14 - hour days with their mother in the textile mills.

He led the campaign to shorten the hours worked by those in the textile mills to ten per day.

In some ways, they resemble the 19th century Luddites — the English textile workers who destroyed labor saving machinery in textile mills.

My father was engaged in commerce and for a time was foreman in a textile mill that made hosiery.

Rice is from the sticks of Woodruff, S.C., where he once fed cotton fibers onto conveyer belts in a textile mill for $ 5.25 an hour.

It's terrific only if you think kids today are going to work in a textile mill.

Despite the low wages, teaching was a far better line of work than slaving away in a textile mill.

1946: After the war, Horst returns home but as a former member of the National Socialist Party is unable to return to teaching and takes a job as a labourer in a textile mill in Zittau.

Made in a textile mill in South Carolina.

Not exact matches

A few years after Lowell's death in 1823, a group of his associates founded the town of Lowell (about 20 miles north of Waltham) in his name and a series of textile mills under a new company name (the Merrimack Manufacturing Company).

Taking advantage of bottom - scraping prices, it bought two plants focused on specialty papers — wallpaper and currency — and converted a third one, in Quebec, from photographic paper into a supplier of pulp to rayon - making textile mills.

Shares in the Berkshire Hathaway textile mill could be had for around $ 7.50 when Mr. Buffett first started buying the stock for himself and his partners.

Long into the 19th century, corporations were circumscribed as to the amount of capital they could solicit ($ 100,000, for instance, in New York under the law of 1811); they were usually confined to a single type of operation (say, textile manufacturing or flour milling); and they were required to dissolve after a specific number of years, 20 or 30.

A tennis player for six years, he works in a Shanghai textile mill and says he feels lucky if he gets to practice three or four times a week.

According to the New York Times, when the textile mills that at one time supported the economy of Greenwood closed, the county experienced the sharpest economic decline of any in the country.

Thirsties uses only the best of USA - sourced components in order to reduce their carbon footprint, and to help support domestic textile mills.

To Jeff and Glenda, in North Carolina, the family that runs our little mill, we are glad to have you on board and are thrilled to create our own gorgeous woven textiles together.

Only the best USA - sourced components are chosen for our products in order to reduce our carbon footprint, to help support domestic textile mills and our local economy, and to ensure that Thirsties diapers will last wash after wash.

From low - cost coal fields in Pennsylvania, coal was brought to Utica on the Chenango Canal and powered steam driven looms in greatly expanded mills that made Oneida County a textile center of the county until after World War II.

The Lofts at Harmony Mills West in its final phase as a project to turn former textile mills into housing Thursday Jan. 16, 2014, in Cohoes, NY.

The redevelopment has begun of a once badly polluted former textile mill in Chicopee Massachusetts.

Woven in the USA at a preeminent textile mill, this pillow cover is backed in natural - colored Belgium linen.

Greer says 33 textile mills in China have adopted efficiency standards that have reduced pollution.

Everybody is anxiously waiting for the latest collection by this amazing textile mills and the wait is over because Shariq textiles is introducing its brand new eid collection in collaboration with Ayesha chottani as it always keep its promise of displaying seasonal and occasional collection.

Expertly loomed in Italy at a preeminent family - owned textile mill, this reversible pillow cover features the same design on both sides.

Woven in the USA at a preeminent textile mill, it's backed in natural flax linen.

Appalled by the horrible working conditions in the town's textile mill, Mastrioanni stays on to organize the workers in a strike.

I was reminded, in looking at the cotton bales, that slave labor was the hidden energy source for those textile mills.

This primary source activity pack gives students multiple ways to analyze the testimony of textile mill - worker William Cooper before a Parliamentary committee investigating child labor during the early Industrial Revolution in Britain.

Rich in history for housing the Manville Mill powered by the Blackstone River, it was the largest textile mill in the country with over 5,000 employees in the 1950s.

Because Buffett wasted precious time and capital on a textile mill in terminal decline rather than allocate his funds in something more profitable — in his case, insurance.

This is a good letter which details Buffett's views on a number of issues such as diversification, the likelihood of a repetition of the partnerships 47.2 % gain during 1965 plus Buffett also makes some comments on the textile mill they had started to buy in to a few years previously — which was of course Berkshire Hathaway.

In 1962, a young portfolio manager named Warren Buffett bought a textile mill company in Massachusetts named Berkshire HathawaIn 1962, a young portfolio manager named Warren Buffett bought a textile mill company in Massachusetts named Berkshire Hathawain Massachusetts named Berkshire Hathaway.

Although the textile mills unfortunately had to finally shut down for good, National Indemnity has come a long way since Buffett purchased it for $ 8.6 million in 1967 (see the original 2 - page purchase contract here, no big Wall Street M&A fees on this deal).

The Scots weavers were proud of their tough little terriers, bred small enough to squeeze into the nooks and crannies of textile mills in pursuit of rodents.

Coimbatore, the second largest city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is known for its industrial activity, extensive textile mills and surrounding cotton fields.

Lowell, MA - The Appleton Mills Apartments offer affordable live / work lofts for artists in a remodeled textile mill, complete with galleries, freight elevators, sink rooms, and basement storage.

Elana Herzog incorporates found textiles, torn and elusive, along with paper pulp, as a project with the Dieu Donné paper mill in the Garment District right in Manhattan.

This is a show of textiles taking conceptual themes from the Donald Judd installation in Marfa at the Chinati foundation «100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982 - 1986»

Finally, MILL6 FOUNDATION is scheduled to complete restoration of their 1960s textile mill space in 2018.

About 2,500 sq metres (26,909 sq ft) of fabric from textile mills in Surat, India, hang from a plywood frame 24 metres (78ft) long and 12 metres high.

little berlin is located in the Viking Mill, a historic textile - mill turned artist space in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia located at Boston St. at Coral St. — enter through the courtyard at Coral St.» — Little Berlin

This has less do with quality, interest, page space or anything else than the simple fact that the exhibition is packed to the rafters, and in the generous confines of Mass MoCA's sprawling campus, housed in an old textile mill in North Adams, this is really saying something.