Sentences with phrase «small factory town»

Born in 1915 in the small factory town of Sturgis, Mich., Mr. Smith graduated from San Mateo Union High School in 1932.

Set in roughly the late 1990s, it's a brief but unrelenting novel about growing up gay and poor in a small factory town in northern France.

Smaller factory towns barely penetrate the national consciousness, dizzied by the shell game of today's global manufacturing: will they stay or will they go?

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The evidence is there for all to see — shuttered factories in big cities and small towns all over America, persistent wage stagnation and high unemployment for workers without college or specialized vocational skills.

Rather, new factories were built, usually on the outskirts of small towns in heretofore rural America, where the mechanization of farms made available a pool of cheap, plentiful labor.

Before Milenko retired, he managed a small electronics factory, but what he liked most was walking around town, meeting friends for coffee, catching up on the news of the day.

While PFOA contamination is believed to have leeched into the ground water from the nearby Saint Gobain Plastics factory, this story is less about the polluter and more about whether the concerns from residents of a small town near the Vermont border were taken seriously in a timely enough fashion.

Often they settled in rural communities when they were economically more healthy, (e.g. in a small town that relied on one factory that left or mine that shut down), but never moved away.

A lot of rural voters in the hill country of the South particularly, but in small towns across the county, live in what amount to company towns where one or two modest sized factories provide most private employment.

Remington Arms» main factory has been in the small town of Ilion, east of Utica, for more than 100 years.

Its factory has been located in the small Mohawk Valley town of Ilion, N.Y. for two centuries.

Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient coal power plants closed in favor of larger, higher heat facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.

IN THE small town of Fayetteville in northern New York, you'll find the local library in an old furniture factory dating from the turn of the 20th century.

Early history and career: Michael Merzenich was born in 1942 in the town of Lebanon in the US state of Oregon, the son of a factory foreman and supervisor and a German - American mother in this small agricultural and lumbering community.

In his new life, he becomes mayor of a small town where he owns a factory that employees dozens of otherwise destitute women.

Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook and Jacob Lofland star as the three broken people whom writer - director Sara Colangelo uses to explore small - town life in a factory town where the economic divide can be felt in every interaction.

«Hula Girls» (TBA): Fun little globalization comedy with heart about a small Japanese town that, when the factory closes, turns to a Hawaiian theme park stocked with the title characters to draw tourism.

His first great success was «Loves of a Blonde» (1965), which followed the story of a small town woman working at a shoe factory who shares a night with a soldier that she meets at a dance and then follows to Prague in the hopes of a longer - lasting relationship.

Emili Adachi, daughter of a small - town factory boss, is abducted from...

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

A socially awkward but overall nice guy who works at the Milton Bathtub Factory in the small town of the same name, Jerry is trying to lead a normal life in the wake of a family tragedy with the help of his psychiatrist (Jacki Weaver).

The small, slightly run - down town of Renazzo is near Cento, just to the north of the Lamborghini factory.

They grew up 40 miles from Land Rover's historic factory in Solihull, in the small town of...

I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...» Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, his back twisted beyond repair by the catastrophic events of «that night» when a burning fog of poison smoke from the local factory blazed out over the town of Khaufpur, and the Apocalypse visited his slums.

India opened up for me in a way it had never before: not only were people coming to me with their stories, but I was visiting factories, small towns, slums, homes in far - flung places.

It's set in the small New England town in which we grew up together, a run - down port town in our time and before, a factory and mill town peopled by hard - working immigrants.

Ziwi Peak is proudly 100 % family owned, with a factory located in the beautiful, small coastal town of Mount Maunganui on the North Island of New Zealand.

It serves the small island in the north of peninsular Malaysia, with it's historic old town and many high technology factories.

Explore a small town with an abandoned circus, a burnt - out pillow factory and more eerie locations.

Just over three hours by car from New York City, North Adams is Massachusetts» smallest town and home to MASS MoCA, an impressive contemporary and performance art museum inside of a converted 19th - century factory.

Raised in a small town in the West German countryside, Biesenbach was enrolled in medical school in 1990 when he decided to move into an abandoned margarine factory in East Berlin and establish the arts colony Kunst - Werke.

FCo then sells off XCo's parts, in the process shutting down a number of factories in a number of small Canadian towns, putting a slew of people out of work and hurting the business that relied on the shut down factories.

With a small - town real estate market hobbled by factory and store closings, Greg A. Storey used an auction to close a sale for almost double the market price.

Back in 2000, we lived in a dying small Midwest factory town and those 3 properties weren't in the best areas.

While in Sweden we visited the town of Dalarna where the horses are made in a small factory.