Word: colonymaid
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Next day, to the abandoned two-story plant of Fashionmaid Hosiery Co. at Vankirk and Keystone Streets went the 80 to clean up, overhaul the machines, put up a new sign (Colonymaid Hosiery Corp.) and get ready for production. It was their plant. They had put up $300 each by drawing on savings, getting loans on their life insurance and cars. They had high hopes and some reason for them...
...Colonymaid is the fifth textile plant that Rector Colony has established in the past eight months.* It all started last year when to Rector Colony's office under the rumbling Frankford Street elevated went a delegation of 55 unemployed hosiery workers to ask him for jobs. Lithuanian-born David Colony-who had soldiered at 16 in Allenby's hell-for-leather army in Palestine, who had muttered against church pomposity and mustiness, who had been unhappy as curate of Philadelphia's swank Church of the Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke...
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