Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half a million sturdy Lancashire cotton folk had ceased to spin and weave. Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12½% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...
...orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark, stubborn battle of wills between a Labor Monopoly and a Capital Monopoly...
...temperature the flier ungoggled his eyes, the better to watch his instruments. He was dizzy but he pushed the plane slowly through a last thousand feet. At 39,140 ft. he finally pushed it too far. The nose whipped over; the plane plunged 2,000 ft. in a spin. Then the new holder of the altitude record took control of the machine once more, brought it and himself to earth unharmed, 1¼ hrs. after leaving...
...overcome the beginning of a spin the pilot must use his ailerons (small auxiliary wings fixed in the back edge of the wings). When one aileron rises, its opposite drops. That gives an opposed effect which ordinarily permits banking and turning from a straight level flying course. It also overcomes spins, if the pilot is alert and maneuvers quickly. But at the stalling angle the ailerons work sluggishly when...
...interrupts the air flowing through the slot before it. Thus the wing gets no air lift on that side and it drops until it is level with the previously dropping wing on the other side of the fuselage. Thus does the pilot have a good opportunity to prevent a spin and to pull his plane out of its stall...