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Such was a milestone in a 50-year industrial millennium in the Kohler plant. Although Kohler Co.'s sales began to fall off in 1928, it neither laid off men nor cut wages or hours until 1931. Then it cut hours 10%, later wages. Then, too, its workers began to grumble about working conditions: sandblasting was hazardous to the lungs; work at the kilns was deadly hot; penalties for imperfect work were too heavy. Last August the plant for the first time laid off men. Almost at once a local A. F. of L. union was established...
...clear understanding on the part of each nation of the existing situation. Considerable water has passed under the bridge since 1921, Mussolini has rejuvenated Italy; the Sovist Republic has, under Stalin, become nationally-minded; of the three statesmen, Briand, Streseman and Macdonald, who were believed capable of achieving a millennium of peace in Europe, two have died, and the third has fallen a victim to his ideology; with every year, Japan has become more militaristically inclined; and Hitler has made it clear that Germany is going through with her reconstruction regardless of the Treaty of Versailles...
...until this year did Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop reveal the extent and significance of the fabulous treasures which he and other Harvard archeologists have uncovered In three years of unpublicized digging in the Province of Coclé, 90 mi. from the Canal Zone. The region was inhabited half a millennium ago by a rich and industrious people, culturally apart from the Incas to the south, from the Mayas and Aztecs to the north. Christopher Columbus encountered them on his fourth and last voyage (1502), went home to tell of their massive gold breast ornaments. Before long Panama was swarming with...
...from now, when the President's fair weather friends have left him, when the storms of capitalist opposition howl mercilessly about the White House, he will come to the fore with his support; we will then move on to the new social era, which is going to be "a millennium of justice and plenty...
...however, presumptuous to suppose that a puff of enthusiasm from the rostrum would be enough to hold a student's interest. It will only be when both the teacher and the taught recognize the newness of each topic to the student that an academic millennium will be attained. By that time, both may be sliding together...