GatCreek Furniture is based in West Virginia and employs over 175 millworkers. ❋ Robin Wilson (2011)
It was thought that, if the cotton supply were cut off, thousands of unemployed British millworkers would demand that Her Majesty's government intervene to break the Union blockade of Southern ports, thus touching off a war with the United States and guaranteeing Confederate independence. ❋ Michael Burlingame (2011)
The long-delayed project — ground wasn't broken on WTC 1 until 2006 — now has 1,000 workers broken into crews of ironworkers, glaziers, welders, mechanics, carpenters, masons and millworkers. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Those who moved away find their way back: The old millworkers in wool hats gather under blankets in the senior citizens' seats, people wary of the streets gather here to greet old friends. ❋ Theresa Vargas (2011)
The millworkers fidgeted and shivered, cursed the cold and the damp, and flexed wet fingers cramped from holding on to axe handles, crowbars, baseball bats, and three-foot lengths of concrete rebar. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)
In Fall River, Massachusetts, for instance, the mortality rate for married women millworkers was three times higher than for single women mill workers, and four times higher than that for married women who did not work in the mills. ❋ Linda (2008)
This great adventure would not have been possible without black miners and millworkers. ❋ JAMES S. HIRSCH (2010)
The company I work for has also been a target of a carpenter and millworkers union because of an indirect x3 relationship it had. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They might starve, but they would starve as gentlewomen and as intellectuals, as farmers who revered the land or teachers who understood Plato, not as illiterate millworkers or factory girls. ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)
When Anne Englert, whose family owns Clark's Trading Post in New Hampshire, advertised tryouts for a new wolfman in April, she drew a dozen enthusiastic applicants, former construction and millworkers from throughout the state. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The address: 2300 Jackson St. -- the legendary space, really just a modest house tucked into a row of millworkers 'homes -- where the young Jacksons honed their performing skills and dreamed of something better. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It was a local stronghold and icon, favored by thirsty millworkers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As Barack Obama and a slew of new, Democratic politicos prepare to step into power next January, the rest of us - we corset-makers and privateers, we schoolteachers and nurses and millworkers and mechanics, we parents and coaches, journalists and farmers and lawyers and mediators and architects - all the rest of us have indispensable work to do. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Forest and millworkers are retraining to be nurses, flight technicians, fitness instructors. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Most of us blogging here can identify with most of our politicians' upbringings - i.e., they attended American grammer and high school, their parents were millworkers at a South Carolina mill, etc... ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
