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9781417940141
1930. With illustrations from photographs by the author. Shumway was hired by a group of Boston businessmen to go down to Alabama and write about what he heard and saw about a group of five cotton mills for which they were selling agents. He was chosen because he was a Yankee, a novelist, an unbiased and unopinionated person who is trained to write about people and would write his report with an open mind. Contents: I Go South; Children of the South; Three Old Men who Liked It; In the Mill; Not Help but Partners; Let's Go Places!; Church and a Few Calls; Towels by the Million; What's being Done for the Young Folks; The Drift from the Farms; and The Last Word.Shumway, Harry is the author of 'I Go South an Unprejudiced Visit to a Group of Cotton Mills ' with ISBN 9781417940141 and ISBN 141794014X.
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