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...stocky, ruddy-faced man, equally as well dressed as Leader McMahon, but more aggressive, was sent to Washington to prepare for the strike. Turning down overtures of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, he announced that 300,000 cotton textile workers would quit, bringing the whole industry to a sudden stop...
...White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory...
...took his seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...
...astonished. He had been a quiet, moody fellow all the eight years they were married. Lately he had begun to worry because of trouble with other Columbus truck drivers. Maybe, she thought, the time last year he bumped his head while unloading butter had something to do with his sudden talkativeness. She took him up to his parents' home at rustic little Edison a few miles north of Columbus...
Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...