Sentences with phrase «tanneries dumped»

The one - percenters are ALWAYS looking for a place to recreate the era when U.S. citizens (many of them immigrants) worked like slaves on building railroads, when women were crammed like sardines into sweatshops in lower Manhattan, when mills and tanneries dumped toxic fluids into rivers and streams as they pleased.

For years, the tannery dumped the hide splits at a private site, costing it money and creating a stink that turned the locals against the plant.