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After all, for all its grim, satanic mills, it worked out pretty well, didn't it?
Until fairly recently, kids worked, on our farms primarily, but also in factories, mills, mines.
They're small-scale sugar mills.
She watched the steel mills close and white flight to suburban developments.
When in the 19th century people were choking from the soot of the dark, satanic mills, the planners said, hey, let's move the housing away from the mills.
Meanwhile, the rotation made gears pump out water, crush grain, or power mills, which is where the name "treadmill" originated.
These devices were seen as a fantastic way of whipping prisoners into shape, and that added benefit of powering mills helped to rebuild a British economy decimated by the Napoleonic Wars.
Fantastic, glamorous pictures of steel mills and paper mills and all kinds of glamorous industrial places.
About six years ago, I bought one of these CNC mills, to just replace, kind of, young people cutting their fingers off all the time building models.
And what you're seeing here is, again, one of the most state-of-the-art textile mills.
This is a line where they get the threads and they wind the threads together, pre-going into the textile mills.
In this day and age in which just about every other news story involves discussions of waterboarding, images of Abu Ghraib, or tales of forced detentions at Guantanamo Bay, Gavin Hood's "Rendition" is about as up-to-the-minute and timely a movie as is ever likely to come out of the entertainment mills of mainstream Hollywood.
Sidney Stratton is having trouble maintaining jobs at various textile mills mainly because of his experimentation in the textile laboratories.
As the mills close and the union jobs disappear, the blue-collar workers are threatened by everyone: management, owners, their wives and children.
The movie is like a who's who of 50s British character stars: Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Miles Malleson, Duncan Lamont, and particularly Ernest Thesiger, great as the dessicated old giant of the textile mills.
Early in the story we are treated to a colorful but talky exposition which sets the plot in motion: On the day the Civil War starts, Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold), itinerant peddler, and his partners in crime (Cary Grant and Jack Oakie) devise a scheme to buy cotton cheaply in the South, smuggle it North and sell it at a high price to New England mills, thus launching the career of one of the fabled financial speculators of the 19th century.
A group of people lives near the steel mills in a run-down neighborhood.
It is a pity if these movies do not follow the course of the original book but still view it as a mills and boon brought to film nonetheless.
Out of the ten that I have watched I would put it at position 5 and to explain this I will run down what is needed to bring a mills and boon/shilloutte romance to film.
In broken Lullaby and Loving Evangeline both mills and boon men got into fights and lost!! Finally there must be a marriage resolution at the end of the film.
Wha wha wha what?? She's hospitalized and Tony Curtis mills around and the slop and glop-ola both start flying in abundance.
They owned everything from paper mills to department stores and supermarket chains.
Imagine a gathering of textile entrepreneurs in 1800 debating whether to introduce steam machines to mechanize their cotton mills.
The benefit to the entire economy was bigger than the sum of the benefits for the individual mills.
Blaming the Spanish conquerors or the economic empires of the twentieth century cannot hide the fact that huge amounts of money financed corrupt governments, inefficient bureaucracies, big and useless “development” projects such as industrial plants or mineral mills, or a wide variety of subsidies to buy off powerful interest groups.
“We are not going to save the planet by shutting down our steel mills, aluminum smelters, and paper manufacturers,” he declared in 2011.
The Industrial Revolution is often remembered for its “Satanic mills”; but it was also a time of radical new thinking in economics, spearheaded by Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Antoine Cournot, and many others.
Especially in China’s massive interior, rapid urbanization requires high output from steel mills, chemical refineries, and coal-fired electricity plants, leading to the dangerously high levels of air pollution that have become synonymous with Chinese-style development.
Providing a "development shortcut" that leads directly to photovoltaic or nuclear electricity generators, not coal-fired power stations, high-performance materials, not steel mills, and cellular telephone networks, not expensive fixed-line systems, would clearly benefit us all.
Uganda’s importers, seeing the shift, have invested in new mills in the country, expanding employment and creating competition for farmers’ output, improving prices.
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