Sentences with phrase «textile mills where»

Sissy Spacek plays Norma Rae, a single mother, who fights to unionize the textile mill where she works.

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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.

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.

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.

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.