Woollen factories.

At the time of my visit, the royal factories could not turn out a supply of cigars commensurate with the requirements of commerce; and this brought about a peculiar condition of things; the wholesale dealer, who purchased cigars in very considerable quantities at the government auctions, paying higher than the retail rates at which he could buy them singly in the estancia.

Not unnaturally the Chinese retaliated by burning foreign factories and cutting foreign throats.

Down toward the town there is a little factory for barrel hoops and staves.

The price for this work is miserably low, partly by reason of the competition of provincial factories, partly for reasons to be discussed in a later chapter.

The reality is a vast interdependent national factory that would have seemed incredible to Fourier.

The Hôtel St. Martin there, which generally attracts visitors for a few days at least, was not our destination; so we took a glimpse at Fagalde's celebrated chocolate factory and the old churchyard high above the riverwhile our horses were being changedand then resumed our journey to the Pas de Roland.

Nearer to the city he saw no more pretty playhouses along the shoresonly dingy factories.

It is not because that town is now one of the principal ribbon-factories of the world, and exports to this country alone over $1,200,000 worth yearly; although some fair readers may suppose that an all-sufficient reason,and some of their admirers and protectors, too, for that matter.

Prussia has a whole thriving factory of thumbscrews, a whole humming workshop of wheels and racks, of the newest and neatest pattern, with which to win back Europe to the Reaction ...

They thus devote their own capital and intellect to increasing the yield of their estates; while the central factories, it is said, pay dividends ranging from twenty to forty per cent.

Edna Ferber describes inhuman robot factory.

Twenty-one years ago in the bag and hemp factories of St. Louis, girl experts turned out 460 yards of material in a twelve-hour day, the pay being 24 cents per bolt (of from 60 to 66 yards).

The "reader" is quite an institution in all cigar factories which employ Spanish-speaking workmen.

I should explain that the description I have given of the prevalent idleness along the Meuse applied to the towns and to the scattered workingmen's villages that flanked all or nearly all the outlying and comparatively isolated factories.

A constant succession of gaieties keeps everyone alive, till the time arrives for a return to our respective factories, and another year's hard work.

So the blood is drafted from the non-essential industriesfrom the skin where it serves normally to regulate the heat of the bodyfrom the digestive organs, the stomach and intestine, which must forsooth stop now, since if the organism will die, their last effort of digestion has been donefrom the liver and spleen, great chemical factories in normal times, but now of no moment.

He has a charming little country place, called Rideau Hall, about three miles out of town, and is the owner of several carding, saw, and flour mills, besides an extensive cloth factory, from the produce of which I am at this moment most comfortably clad.

Ours is accessible from the larger lake only by taking the skiff over a narrow embankment, which protects our fairyland by its presence, and eight distant factories by its dam.

The Funny bunny factory.

"It is Belgium's mission to be a gigantic factory for the rest of the world," and of course this mission will be directed byGermany!

Servien could make nothing of the other's temperament, one that looks upon the world as an immense factory where the good workman labours, coat off and sleeves rolled up, the sweat pouring from his brow and a song on his lips.

Each independent factory must send its drummers into every part of the country to seek business.

Industrialism was born and inland factories sent forward, over the recently-installed railroads, a downpour of products that the fleets were transporting to all the Mediterranean towns.

When at Dublin he visited Grubb's instrument factory.