Sentences with phrase «of textile mills»

The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories.

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.

All I knew — given the limited range of professional lives I could observe from my hometown of textile mills and surrounding tobacco fields — was that I wanted to teach.

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).

What happens is the water coming out of the textile mill isn't contaminated.

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.

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The mills produce pulp for a number of consumer products including diapers, hygiene products, tissue and textiles.

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.

At the time of Buffett's initial purchase, Berkshire was an ailing textile mill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

One of Rockland's major annual events, Garner Arts Festival bills itself as «The Lower Hudson Valley's Premier Arts Festival» and estimates average attendance of 4 — 6,000 people to its Garnerville location, once a textile mill many decades ago and now a haven for artists.

That's the Georgia textile mill whose unhappy former workers provided vivid testimony of the company's decline under Foley's stewardship.

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

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.

Make your Eid day special and glamorous by wearing the wonderful designs of Firdous textile mills.

Vadiwala's embroidered chiffon collection 2015 by VS textile mills consists of three piece suits having 3 meter embroidered neck shirt, chiffon dupatta, and a 2.5 - meter trousers.

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.

I'm off to the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, where long brick textile mills still stand along the banks of the Merrimack River.

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

A hundred years ago or so, farming land west of Charlotte, North Carolina was given over to giant textile mills.

At the time of Buffett's initial purchase, Berkshire was an ailing textile mill.

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.

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.

Matter of fact, we used to be a paper mill and textile town and when those companies closed down this town starting dying, just a bunch of empty run down buildings.

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.

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.

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.

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»

Some of the first textile mills I photographed reminded me of the hospital workshops, but while those places had long been abandoned, the mills were fully operational.

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

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.

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.

A former 19th Century textile mill, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is one of the world's most vibrant centers for making, displaying and viewing some of today's most evocative art.

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.

Highlights of the textile production partnership include: water that leaves the mill is cleaner than the drinking water that enters it; excess fabric clippings are used as mulch by farmers in the surrounding area; and dyes pass the most rigorous tests for human health and the environment.

Working with clients ranging from small companies like the Swiss textile mill Rohner to global megacorporations like the Ford Motor Company, both firms are showing that designers attuned to this cradle - to - cradle philosophy can replicate nature's closed - loop systems in the worlds of commerce and community.

Guillermo Zimeri M., owner of the cavernous Textisur textile mill, is buying the power plant to reduce his energy bills and better compete with mills in other countries.

Texas produces 55 % of the U.S. crop and two - thirds of America's yield is exported to mills in China, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand, where textile manufacturers drove prices down by reducing their stockpiles hoping to see a glut on the market and hence lower cotton prices, Miller says.

Thousands of visitors each year visit the textile mills from the early days.

At the height of the Industrial Revolution, the textile mills had recruited 8,000 women, which made up nearly 75 % of the mill workforce.

Oversee implementation, operation, maintenance, and performance of large - scale textile milling machines

Water driven mills led to the production of textiles, Colt firearms and railroad steam engines and the rise of silk industries.

It grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command nearby at the Redstone Arsenal.

Thanks to the textile mills that once operated in the area, the lower portion of the river contains concentrations of phosphorous and nitrogen, among other contaminants.