| 单词 | factory |
| 例句 | Even though he was lifting a lid on a fly factory, Kyle was feeling pretty pumped. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z But I’m pretty sure every single time he stops himself from crying, his nightmare factory just goes and creates another doozy for when he falls asleep. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He then led me into the rear room of the office, which turned out to be a tiny factory filled with many strange machines smeared with red dust. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumor had it that the peanut butter maker’s husband—a stodgy, surly type—shut down the factory after his wife’s death, purely out of spite. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Millions of other agricultural workers were told to move to cities to work in factories. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Charles Monet returned to his job at the pump house at the sugar factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With an aluminum factory, coal mines, and a large power plant, the town was perhaps accustomed to night-shift workers walking the streets at all hours. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This certainly wasn’t a peanut butter factory anymore. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Living in San Francisco and not playing Book Scavenger was like living in a chocolate factory but not eating any sweets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z These woolen factories became major employers of people whose families had been displaced when land was privatized. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I’ll end up working in a factory, marry some loser, and have his ugly children. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To my left sunshine poured through a window, lighting up the rouge smears and making the factory look garish, violent, dangerous. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My father used to surprise us with small gifts, perhaps a piece of paper from the factory, or a pen, or a coin for each of us to spend on a pack of peanuts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But me and Maria only know the ground, only know the factory on the corner with its newly painted bright pink wall. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The growing number of mills and factories changed the landscape as well; towns and cities were expanding, as was the division between rich and poor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning the Keepers lined up the boys and raised a flag with the emblem of a beehive over the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Give me twenty workers like her and I’d open a small factory and make a million,” his father used to joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The euthanasia program had given the Nazis the technology to create mass-murder factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The poultry plant bus came each day to pick up adults and take them to the factory where they would daily pluck, hack, and process thousands of chickens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A car's odometer comes from the factory set at 00000, though by the time the dealer’s done tooling around town, it’s probably got a few more miles on it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “And don’t fluster poor Charlie. We must all try to keep very calm. Now the first thing to decide is this—who is going to go with Charlie to the factory?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z It is no accident that the non-union workers in these factories receive little more consideration than the animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In late March, the machine parts factory is padlocked, and Frau Elena and the girls are sent to work for a civilian firm cleaning the streets after bombings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s the factory worker whose hands were flattened like corn tortillas by a machine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z My father used to bring scraps from work, but now that the factory was doing so poorly, that luxury ended. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At the time, Hugh was living in a loft on Canal Street, a former chocolate factory where the walk-in coolers had been turned into bedrooms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When she was back working in the factory or cleaning apartments, she gave me money for lunch. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z And the five lucky finders of these five Golden Tickets are the only ones who will be allowed to visit my factory and see what it’s like now inside! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I’ve been at the battery factory almost twenty years now, since right after the revolution, and I supervise forty-two women. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He is firm in one conclusion, having risen from the factory floor only to be knocked down: “There is no working up anymore.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It lights up the empty room of the factory. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only thing it’s good for then is to boil down and sell to factories to put in chewing tobacco. But it’s not worth the trouble.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z A passable slogan for a factory but an odd concept, it seemed to me, for junior prison guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And so every time an interesting new virus appears in the meat factories, the scientists take samples and craft them into viruses that can infect humans. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Mr. Wonka was standing all alone just inside the open gates of the factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z They entered the factory complex through the counting room as they had two weeks before, but this time it was teeming with men, all dressed like gentlemen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He seemed so out of place in the room of neatly dressed, chattering factory girls, this short man, very thin, with a weathered face and the homespun clothes of a hill farmer. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Outside the gates of Wonka’s factory, enormous crowds of people had gathered to watch the five lucky ticket holders going in. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I cross an iron bridge over a ravine of railroad tracks, find the brick walls rising stories above me, go through a set of double doors, and then I am inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But until that factory got going and packages from friends outside began to fill out our wardrobes, warmth was more important than style. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m laughing, too, and imagining a factory with little Ollys coming off an assembly line. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of my classmates had parents who held jobs in factories, which made them look down on students whose parents did gardening. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaflets were distributed in factories and shops, at railway stations and bus stops, in beer halls and hospitals, and from house to house. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus—the brains of the operation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Guards scavenged for sex among the factory’s seamstresses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was used to having him slouching around the pickle factory, and was used to being beaten from time to time. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You heard what I said,” Ignatius answered and lumbered through the door to the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ji-yong and I had arrived early, but we still ended up sitting near the back of the factory cafeteria. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Frequently, we’d tag along at his side, pencils and notebooks in our hands, when Dad toured a factory which had hired him as an efficiency expert. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z On the land taken from the commons, landowners were able to employ laborers from the peasant class to raise large herds of sheep and to send the wool to factories to be processed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z So what last-minute adjustment was being made here in this secret factory? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “There are rumors,” my father said, his voice breaking, “that we are being taken somewhere in Hungary to work in the brick factories. It seems that here, we are too close to the front. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles considered himself too talented and intelligent for kitchen and factory work. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This job in the cookie factory was one of the worst. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “The factory is in New Jersey. My dad was born right after that. That’s why he’s named Apollo.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He didn’t know whether to desert the seared Mr. Palermo and see what had happened or to stay in the factory, where the workers had begun dancing with one another under the loudspeakers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So far, my father's work papers from Schindler's factory had protected our family from deportation, but the Luftigs were not so fortunate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Careers' willingness to leave their supplies, Foxface's reaction, the involvement of the boy from District 3, where they have the factories, where they make televisions and automobiles and explosives. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When he did find the proper courage, the office manager intended to approach Mr. Reilly in a most politic manner about the amount of time he was spending in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A constant and steady supply of broken planes coaxed back to repair sites, new ones delivered from factory to operational base—all flown by civilian pilots, no instruments, no radio, no guns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I had heard plenty of stories about the wild parties he threw in his offices on the second floor of the factory, parties that went late into the night. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Since the launch of the HeLa production factory at Tuskegee, Gey had been writing a steady stream of letters to other scientists, trying to restrict the way they used Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In between were storehouses, drug purification labs, and a factory where food pellets for the eejits were made. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Little by little the window closed, and the factory disappeared. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Very slowly, with a loud creaking of rusty hinges, the great iron gates of the factory began to swing open. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He makes his way downstairs with the candle, sleeps on a chair, misses work in the morning, loses the job at the cement factory, and we’re back on the dole again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Then he lumbered off to the factory door, thundering past Miss Trixie, who had fallen to her knees again before the cross. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our pink nights glowed with the raw luminescence of the night shift, of factories running around the clock. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He made it his business to know exactly what went on at the factory. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They forced factories that had made junk food to crank out healthy food instead. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I open the door, and there’s Lubek, three girls I don’t know but recognize from the factory floor, and two more couples I’ve never seen in my life. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The landscape has become gray, filled with low flat cement buildings, old factories, and then tracks and more tracks filled with trains like ours passing by in the opposite direction. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned through the camp network that Pesza had also been assigned to a similar sub-camp on the property of the electrical factory where she worked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “He—he’s not free to marry. There’s a wife ... in Concord. She wouldn’t come to live here in a factory town. Though her father is one of the owners.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Our other plan was to bomb Japan’s cities and factories. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy convinced him that not all the brave men were in trenches—that many a hero was risking his life daily for his country in a munitions factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later I learned that my brother and I were to be transferred to the factory's toolmaking area, which required higher skills and also meant we would be with our father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I asked him to see if he could find out how my mother and sister were doing, because it was a small factory, and he would hear my aunt talking about things. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For now, I do invite you to come to my factory and be my guest for one whole day—you and all others who are lucky enough to find my Golden Tickets. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Shin worked late that night in the factory and was among the last of the sewing machine repairmen to walk into a ten o’clock meeting of ideological struggle, a mandatory session of self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One day my father summoned the courage to ask Schindler to hire my brother David, then fourteen, to work in his factory, and Schindler agreed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In fact, some of the factories on their target list had no guards of any type even though what they manufactured was essential. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Dinka never built factories or highways or cars or planes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Cells of all sorts are commonly likened to biochemical factories, busy ferments in which dozens of mechanisms are working away in complex sequences that are half Rube Goldberg, half ballet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What would you do for a living if you didn't work for the factory? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The government was also building a massive factory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a secret city with eighty thousand workers living in trailers around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And the place they are fed is the American factory farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He knew that all the other Touchable workers in the factory resented Velutha for ancient reasons of their own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was all okay they were to start production in plastics factories all over the country. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He had already been through all the slaughterhouses, all the factories of death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “We goin back to the factory,” the spokesman for the choir, the intense lady, said angrily to Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all wildly hungry and one suggested they raid the factory’s vegetable garden, where there were cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, eggplant, and radishes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Through it all, one thing was constant: a factory job that was his ticket to the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The hours lost in forming lines and walking back and forth between the factory and Płaszów could be better spent producing goods and making a profit. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He lost several fingers working in a prison factory and was now disabled as a result of his forced labor at Angola. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There were diffident raps on the factory window. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Talking to Caesar would have helped, but he was at the factory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I know what I said and why. They don’t have grass at the dairy factory,” Ma Charles said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She looked like a younger version of Mom after a twelve-hour shift in the chicken factory, or Dad after a long day of baling hay. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The army was mutinous; the factory workers galled; inflation ran amok. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Machines from the Capitol break ground for a new factory where we will make medicines. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “It almost sounds like there’s a factory or something down here.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It looked like a neighborhood on a holiday, when the factories are shut down, but without the fun of a party. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale — on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory — he decided to buy it. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Instead I got a job at a glass factory down in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother stood with the cleaning women; I stood with my group from the brush factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “If this had hit a whole factory, I would have been completely ruined,” Trueba concluded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Josiah’s factory reproduced many copies of the figure on brooches and seals, too. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It caused a great deal of resentment among the other Touchable factory workers because, according to them, Paravans were not meant to be carpenters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Nazis also took Jews away to work in Kraków’s factories. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “Then off to the factory. I cannot tolerate social injustice.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For his part, he misses Henry’s bed, Henry’s body, Henry and a place a few thousand miles removed from the factory line of the campaign. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Brian heard reports that someone had gotten permission to solicit at one of the local factories—four guys had circulated through the place and sold three hundred boxes in a couple of hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The whale oil lamps stayed on nearly the whole day in the factory, so water buckets were kept filled on every floor. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A History-shaped Hole in the Universe through which, at twilight, dense clouds of silent bats billowed like factory smoke and drifted into the night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They had got my parents doing things like taking bus trips to factory outlets and playing a dice game called “bunko” and hanging around the piano bar at the Ramada Inn. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Well, my journal was starting to look like some kind of weird origami factory, with page after page folded on different angles and edges sticking out all over the place. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They have seen factory gates close and not reopen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Someone'd got a letter from a North Sea oil rig, another from a canning factory in Alaska. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There is a scrap metal recycling plant, a sprawling Goodyear tire factory, and a plastics factory. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In 1915 the river boiled up in a flash flood, ripping over the shoreline around the factory. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In response to the horrors of the factory farm, becoming a vegetarian seems pretty reasonable. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z All the way from Hoboken he’d gazed out at the marvelous sights: electric trams pulling pink faces up Albany’s hills; factories glowing like volcanoes in the Buffalo night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The day the new "Schindler Jews" were to leave for the sub-camp, I sneaked away from my job at the brush factory to see my mother off. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The postcard was of a tobacco factory, row after row of women bunching bronze leaves into cigars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The low, dirt-colored buildings at the edge of the city, past the greenbelt and among the factories. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He was a shoemaker who worked at an exclusive shoe factory at Fifty - third and Fifth Avenue—H. Bendel’s. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The virus may have entered the cotton factory by some unknown route—perhaps in insects trapped in the cotton fibers, for example, or in rats that lived in the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while, I worked at a canning factory where we packaged chiles and salsa. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She should have tried to find a job in the factory, or as a maid for one of the rich families outside the North End. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z He had rarely been granted permission to leave the factory to see his parents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was aware of his libertine relationships with the women in the factory, but had ceased to be hurt by them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The brush factory where I had worked in the ghetto had been relocated to Płaszów, and I was assigned to the twelve-hour night shift. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I have heard more than a little hissing and roaring through the factory door, but my presently somewhat enervated condition precludes a descent into that particular inferno at the moment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound was like a fiesta in the middle of an exploding gunpowder factory. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z With so many prisoners working so close together, the factory was a petri dish for snitching. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Dad had seen the car in the factory and fallen in love with it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Working in the brush factory also meant I could be inside, where it was warmer, instead of outside chopping ice or shoveling snow. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Adults and children alike worked on the farms and in the factories. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z "So, you're going to memorize a poem," Mr. Stessman continued, pausing a moment to smile down at Park like Gene Wilder in the chocolate factory. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Working in the factory put Shin in close daily contact with several hundred women in their teens, twenties, and thirties. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the past, a semi-skilled black man in Chicago could earn a decent wage working in a factory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the late nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants served the urban upper and middle classes, then left for the factories as soon as they could. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was even talk that Aunt Bushy would have to leave school upon completing Standard Six, and look for a factory job, so she could help pay for Uncle Piet’s schooling. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a year of trying, had my father finally succeeded in getting us into Schindler's factory? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z This process by which the cell functions as a chemical factory is one of the wonders of the living world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now it was a wasteland of abandoned factories. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z As the limousine approached Truman, it passed by a factory complex, the old 3M plant—Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z To watch that factory go up in flames—what revenge! Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z These lucky five will be shown around personally by me, and they will be allowed to see all the secrets and the magic of my factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Aureliano Centeno was found in the hammock that he was accustomed to hang up in the factory with an icepick between his eyebrows driven in up to the handle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A factory was a hundred stagecoaches all inside one’s skull, banging their wheels against the bone. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And in the noise of the factory, I dream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Work was plentiful in those days: in mines, factories and white people’s homes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He achieved such astonishing speed records that he was promoted to superintendent, and then went into the contracting business for himself, building bridges, canals, industrial towns, and factories. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time he was wondering what the new and violent outburst from the factory meant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack’s uncle had a small factory that produced spools of thread, but he could no longer go to a large city for necessary supplies. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z ‘That’s right. Four big cotton mills—those are the main ones. A hosiery factory. Some gins and sawmills.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Maniac was still there when Mr. Beale came home from his Saturday shift at the tire factory. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The factory could hardly churn out jars quickly enough, people bought so many. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The girls also worked as substitute labor so that female factory workers could take a four-week vacation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead there was a dark succession of warehouse, cannery, and factory jobs. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Chacko who christened the factory Paradise Pickles & Preserves and had labels designed and printed at Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s press. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all the members of the force were earning less than half of what many workers had been paid for their labor in the war factories. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Pesza also spent the night at her factory, which meant my mother and I were alone in our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Otherwise, I would don overalls and begin working at one of the factories ringing Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was home from the toothpaste factory, and he was waving an evening newspaper rather excitedly. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Because of this, factories in the North and the Midwest suffered an immediate and extreme labor shortage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For one thing, the various parts of the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were manufactured in factories as far apart as New York and California, with places in between such as St. Louis, Missouri. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the last eleven months of volunteering at the chevra kadisha, I had washed old men who perished on the streets, workers killed in factory accidents, and children taken by illness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The factory farms take the raw material, corn, and turn it into another product—meat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Lyddie murmured an apology, but the woman humphed angrily and readjusted her bonnet, mumbling something under her breath that ended in “factory girls.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z What Haukelid did not yet know was that a remote factory perched on the side of a cliff in Norway was the key to Germany’s top-secret atomic bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their chance came on New Year’s Day, a rare holiday when machines in the factory went silent for two days. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When Uncle came for the bed, I heard him say to my father that Mr. Lyndon was not going to give the factory workers a raise that year. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z They rode past grimy little factories and projects and, after a while, along clean, grassy streets lined with neat little houses. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ugh,” I say, cause my mouth is as dry as a cardboard factory from eating bread all night. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Barack, for his part, had spent plenty of time listening to laid-off factory workers, young military veterans trying to manage lifelong disabilities, mothers fed up with sending their kids to poorly functioning schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If you count all the chickens, pigs, and fish, there are hundreds of millions of food animals raised on factory farms every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We’d park the car and walk along streets of modest bungalows, landing on a doorstep to find a hunched-over widow or a big-bellied factory worker with a can of Michelob peering through the screen door. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mama was whispering; I could barely make out the words “there are many full gas cylinders lying around in the factory.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Gonzalez tried to compose himself again but was disturbed by what sounded like a cheer from the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I took a copy with me to work, and you know, I was the envy of the whole factory. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was when I learned about factory farming that I stopped eating meat. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She found an ad that seemed a happy combination of factory and office; operating a machine in office surroundings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At a tortilla factory, where my job would be to load dough balls onto a conveyor belt, the “interview” is completed by a bored secretary without so much as a “Hi, how are you?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Joanna worked in a factory while her mother took care of the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When other German factory owners took their profits and fled Kraków, intent on saving their lives and fortunes, Schindler increased his efforts to save his Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “The whole concept of life was that you should try to get a good job in the factory. My mother tried to encourage me. She’d say, ‘Dan’s bright; ask him a question.’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After school he had worked in a factory, but the wages were too meager for him to live on his own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered: Was this the kind of work like in a factory, where you did the same thing over and over? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Not that his mother wouldn’t have taken the day off from the button factory where she worked to come down, but because it seemed true, that he was wasting his time. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The suitor in Rutland was urging her to give up factory life, but there was a more compelling reason for her to return. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They reported to work in vast factories that had appeared almost overnight—at least they seemed to be factories, but there was “no receiving dock and no loading dock,” Parkins reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But again, he might be too pressed with invitations from his university mates to find time for a visit with a sister who was only an old spinster and a factory girl to boot. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She’s barely five feet tall, hunched over from years in the factory, but rock hard and still to this day very active and very much alive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Martinelli and other former factory workers say that, over time, they have come to fear that the fall out of the middle class could be permanent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Their water was supplied by the condensation from steam engines from nearby factories and so was cleaner and warmer. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He needed to destroy America's infrastructure by blowing up factories, power plants, water supply systems, and bridges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If I didn’t have these two legs I’d be over in England making a fortune in the factories like the rest of the Irishmen, like your father. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z We call it “factory farming” or “intensive farming.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z London’s air is, on many days, pea-soup thick, the coal smoke from factories mixing with fog. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Shortly after marrying, he began working as an apprentice machinist in a small factory that produced handblown glass bottles of all sizes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I could have been offered a tour of the Godiva factory and I’d totally skip it to do math homework with Gregor Whitman. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The main body of the factory was here, underground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She looked mighty fetching in a tight-fitting gray suit, trimmed with black braid from the factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He argued that it would be far more efficient if workers were a few steps from the factory instead of wasting precious time marching the two and a half miles between Emalia and the camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Getting cows to eat a corn diet takes a heroic effort on the part of the factory farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At one o’clock I went back to the factory. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A factory stood on a hill to one side, the field below filled with flimsy buildings arranged in a square, fencing and razor wire strung around the perimeter. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Yes sir, it will be good to get the factories back to making cars, instead of a car factory being used to aid the war. How many wars do we need anyway?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t the woods we had been taken to, or another factory. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t know that she’d been built in a factory and then stored in a warehouse before crossing the ocean on a cargo ship. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The lights were glowing in the factory, the work was going on; machines were turning, chemicals were combining, people were producing goods and earning their livings. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Heads of factories; directors of industries and agricultural combines who hate to be what they call ‘the Machine’s office-boy’ belong to it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The factory whistle blew and the girls streamed out of the Castle Braid. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Worked in various American factories before returning to Germany and working at Volkswagen. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Heylmun then started talking about “rework,” which is the practice in some food factories of recycling leftover or rejected ingredients from one product batch into another product batch. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He’s come because the Minerwa factory has contacted their office again to see why I’m not coming to work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z During his first year in the factory, he proved it to himself and to his coworkers in a confrontation with another sewing machine repairman. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The sooner this nasty little aristocrat goes to the plankton factory the better. That’s all I can say.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I am going to pray to St. Martin de Porres, the patron saint of mulattoes, for our cause in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And because Christmas Day is on a Saturday, I will have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday away from the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z My father was able to get his old job back at the glass factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He worked at the camp’s cement factory, located several miles away in the far southeast of the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The glass factory prospered, and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to Kraków, a thriving city about three hundred fifty miles southwest of Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z And I have begun my life as a factory worker. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Yes. Are there any factories in that town?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two things the factory manager possessed a morbid fear of: insects and stolen chickens. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Later, I would find out that before running off to Chicago, Frankie had worked with his father at a garment factory in Manhattan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Jordan found another job, sweeping up in a factory, but he hated it, and was tense, restless, and irritable. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In late October 1942, news of another transport reached Schindler, so he kept his Jewish workers at the factory overnight instead of sending them back to the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Urban factories shut down as our nation transitioned to a service economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not long ago, young, unskilled men could find decent, well-paying jobs at large factories in most major Northern cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Two trains and a bus, because she doesn’t want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of this grain is headed for factory farms and processing plants, so no one worries much about keeping it clean. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Caesar worked in the machine factory outside town and his changing schedule rarely overlapped with hers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They were going to protect Saratov’s bridges and railways from enemy bombers, and to guard the Saratov Aviation Factory, the very factory where their own planes had been built. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She had grown up with the factory manager and was sure she’d get the position and make a little extra money for “odd and ends,” as she put it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Around the men was the familiar pervasive stench of the whaling factory—smelling almost as bad as they did themselves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I worked in a factory, at a fast-food restaurant, and at a parcel shipping center. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked factory people better and she liked keeping her mind free while she worked with her hands. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z This week the factory manufactured locomotive engines—Caesar wondered whether they would one day be used by the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Julie had shot the factory from a crane, so that the effect for the viewer was of floating just above the snaking pipes and smokestacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At least half of the girls working in the factory cannot read or write, so Jutta reads them the letters that come from boyfriends or brothers or fathers at the front. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z However, it might have to be sent to someplace like Milwaukee or Chicago or some other city whose name Ignatius associated with efficient repair shops and permanently smoking factories. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Music from a jukebox blared from the windows; men in stained overalls, factory workers, and women in frayed dresses were sitting on the crumbling front steps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In my innocence, I suspected that the obscene jazz issuing forth from the loudspeakers on the walls of the factory was at the root of the apathy which I was witnessing among the workers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every evening at quitting time my exhausted grandfather would come out of the factory and tramp across to an adjacent building housing the Ford English School. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We parked beside the rusted hulk of a small cement factory. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Carrying sewing machines up and down factory stairs no longer wore him out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Why would he build a factory here? He has plenty in Islamabad and Lahore,” Seema said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The actual work was being done at a factory in the Southeast—the Oak Ridge plant, though Fuchs didn’t know that detail yet. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was caused by an accident that had happened at his factory job. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They gave me a minute to get out of the factory, and warned me not to show up again or tell the boss. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later I was at work at the glass factory and the foreman, a German man, came over to me and told me I had a phone call. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The third time, the flames had reduced it to a charred carcass amid the smoke-guttering factories and slaughterhouses of the Stockyards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But most organic milk comes from factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Once in a while, on the walk to the factory, they see bodies, mummies turned to ash, people scorched beyond recognition. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They had looted a small tobacco factory not far from the farmhouse where the two generals thrashed out the terms of surrender. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mom bought me some industrial-strength petroleum-based grease remover that they used at the pants factory. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Yet, he built the spanning bridges and the grand mansions, the sturdy docks and stout factories of the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Milgrom was at her job at the Jackboot uniform factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He had lost his job at the glass factory, and he had lost something even more precious: his dignity as a human being. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Like two fellows on opposite shifts at a factory, Pa went out and Ma came in. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Some were from peasant families, some were the children of intellectuals, some were the children of factory workers and had worked in factories themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They tied his lifeless body to an old, heavy, factory fan and dumped him in the Tallahatchie River. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In this instant of its arrival in our atmosphere, everything in the meteor’s path–people, houses, factories, cars–would crinkle and vanish like cellophane in a flame. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The shots are still going, volley after volley, when our break is over and we go back inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They camped out in a single building that was still standing among the remains of a burned-out factory complex. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “But people still like you. All the oldsters, everybody at the factory...” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z There was a parking lot beside the road and a factory a hundred yards or so beyond. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He said he would report them to their supervisors, the Nazi officials he knew at the factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Even my mother had been taken to the factories when she was caught out on the streets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Each morning my mother went to her cleaning job, and I went to the brush factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Since you’re such an admirer of the gentleman, I thought you might like to see what he wrote about factory life in Lowell,” she said. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We were marched into the factory, which wasn’t a factory after all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z After they finished, the head Keeper, who was called Carlos, gave them a tour of the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been frozen in another age, a time when Kaiser factory workers could buy new cars, take decent vacations, and enjoy full health care benefits. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory, and live out their lives undetected in a back street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kambili, it’s your father. They called me from the factory, they found him lying dead on his desk.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z If a factory was nearby, he’d explain how you used a plumb line to get the chimney straight and why the windows had been placed a certain way to let in the maximum light. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe they just think the state cop pendejo factory is the most exciting show in town.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He is not a rich man, but he is the co-owner of a small trinket factory, making knickknacks from copper, brooches and rings and bracelets and statues. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Luma knew that Beatrice had been working a night shift at the box factory. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The father of a chum had bought a vacuum cleaner factory and said it was a license to print money. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They prepared as best they could but never really thought they’d get hit, given all the ports and factories on the mainland, all much more important targets than Cairnholm’s little gun emplacement. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “This is the most important room in the entire factory!” he said. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The older man at the dormitory leered at her—there was always a licentious implication when a girl visited the men’s housing—and informed her that Caesar was still at the factory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I tell him the factories aren’t open on Sunday, so dressing as workers doesn’t make sense. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Dad got home from his shift at the factory around six, which was normal. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z If the factory whistle blew, he’d take out his stopwatch and time the difference between when the steam appeared and when we heard the sound. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She left the little park behind, and passed a small factory whose thrumming machinery made the pavement vibrate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z From Dr. Mel I learned more than any beef eater might want to know about the life of the factory farm steer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Retrenchment had begun at the factory—they were firing older employees and hiring younger ones, for less pay. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Zinaida had worked in a textile factory for five years before joining the 122nd Air Group, and she was assigned to become a parachute packer for the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The city was noisy and dirty, the weather murky, the air often polluted with a yellow smog from the new factories and from all the fireplaces burning dirty coal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while, he worked in a factory. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The Levys drove past the factory, which, open or closed, looked equally moribund from the street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the factory floor, my grandfather was trained for his job in seventeen minutes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She then tried to get work at a jam factory, but she couldn’t, so she went to a rubber factory instead. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Soon her husband left to take the job in the tobacco factory and, before long, summoned her to Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And then I am awake in the tool factory, and I know I have just screamed, but no one has heard me in the racket. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z We came into the town past the factories and then the houses and villas and I saw that many more houses had been hit. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you tell Eugene? There are gas cylinders in the factory. . . .” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In October 2004, Shin and Park began spending fourteen hours a day together in the garment factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The malt syrup it spooned at the factory contained only a few of the vitamins and minerals every Earthling needs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I then questioned them about the factory, for this was the purpose behind my visit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So long as the factory workers let him alone, he was willing to extend the same courtesy to them. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the factory doors were bolted, he explained, rather than make noise blast- ing them open, they’d go in through an air duct that led into the main building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t even say good-bye, just mumbled something about showering and then sped back toward the factory. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z So many refused to buy nonunion clothing that Marx & Haas had to close one factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “You mean people are actually going to be allowed to go inside the factory?” cried Grandpa Joe. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Though Babi worked at Silo, Kabul’s gigantic bread factory, where he labored amid the heat and the humming machinery stoking the massive ovens and mill grains all day, he was a university-educated man. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His mother lived on the second floor and rented out the first floor to a button factory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I have gone from craft work straight into the factory, from the air-conditioned morgue of the Hearthside directly into the flames. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I decided to invite five children to the factory, and the one I liked best at the end of the day would be the winner!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z But since almost all jobs in factories like Swift & Company were handed out to immigrants, most blacks did not consider a move north to be worthwhile. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And of course it means that billions of animals are doomed to live out their lives on factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She had met and made friends with a few other women married to men who worked in the same factory as my father, but having acquaintances was not the same as having her family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I look at my brother, his forehead a factory of sweat. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z He would call pretty women who worked in the factory to his room, and on the pretext of lecturing them on labor rights and trade union law, flirt with them outrageously. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Crowding the two babies in the buggy she went over to the factory and had Sissy’s long-suffering foreman get her away from her machine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As an expert machinist he was sought after by many factory owners in the area. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z As they inspected the factory and learned the best way to cut the power supply, Dasch noticed that the "foreign labor" at the plant was actually the Nazi version of "slave labor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I remember the raids in Apá’s factory when I was little. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The whole Minerwa factory is being moved to Berlin, along with its staff. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z George Finkle gave her fifteen minutes to clean out her locker and leave the factory. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He was even planning to visit the factory when his valve was better to see how he could improve conditions there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And far away in the distance, from the heart of the great factory, came a muffled roar of energy as though some monstrous gigantic machine were spinning its wheels at breakneck speed. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The Norwegians at the whaling factory crowded Sørlle’s house, asking the manager over and over again to repeat the story Shackleton had told. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Build what? A factory?” a woman up front asked. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1814, there were more than three hundred factories in France alone, turning beets into sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "They catch the fish, then process and can them right on board. It's a floating factory." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z On their way back to London they stopped at the Television Corporation’s factory at Brentford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They both got jobs in a factory, packaging clothes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The members of our umunna had urged him for so long, even when he was still a manager at Leventis and had not bought the first factory, to take a title. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Henry Ford declared that the perfect assembly line factory worker would be a blind man because he could learn one exact task and repeat it endlessly for the rest of his life. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When I found a few potato peels, I would dry them on steam pipes running through the factory and share them with David. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z At first, it was just manual labor, factory labor. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I left the factory that evening, Harrison yelled at me from down the block. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A few nights later Amon Goeth stomped into the factory with his two dogs, Ralf and Rolf, and a squad of his flunkies. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I stole them from the factory,” says Bonnie. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He came here for the cars and car factories. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There were tamer trips, to textile factories and sugar refineries, but my favorite is always the slaughterhouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “What, because I asked you if that was a zinc factory?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He closed it and opened another: the smoke-laden air over an industrial city, with a line of chained and sullen workers trudging into a factory. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The Rusties didn’t put their factories underground, and they all worked together like bees in a hive instead of at home. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It is much more like a factory, where masses of people must do every step right, on time, together, or the whole system collapses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I love to watch the city from above—the graffiti on factories, the honking cars, the old buildings with shattered windows, everyone in a hurry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “We caught up with it at the factory at the end of its shift,” he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Most young seamstresses working with her at the garment factory in St. Louis never had the chance to go to school. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z When I got home from the hospital, Mama was working again at a button factory she had worked in before. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They were urged outside to one of the carts the Keepers used to move equipment around the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the bus passed by the Finkle Foods factory, some of the kids hooted. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Rachel was stuffing herself like a regular factory girl, talking excitedly at the same time. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The judge agreed with the company owners and told strikers that they must stop protesting and return to the factory, or they would lose their jobs. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z She no longer worked at the uniform factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Four of the male factory workers were embracing Ignatius around the Smith field hams that were his thighs and, with considerable effort, were lifting him onto one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With more than five thousand students, it was a factory of learning. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One was a fifteen-inch black-and-white set owned by a man who worked as a manager at the same paper factory where my father worked. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “A factory cannot run without a firm hand. You cannot show weakness. For a business to operate at its fullest potential, everything must be in top order.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Lovely Orchid, the youngest aunt, owned either a shoe store or a shoe factory in Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be better to wait until he had visited the factory and seen what possibilities for social action there were there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fannie organized strikers to march in a picket line in front of the factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I got tired of Aunt Mary treating me so mean, so I quit her factory and started looking for a job as an usher or movie ticket clerk in Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad went from factory to factory, installing his time-saving systems, reducing worker fatigue, so as to speed up production. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked the length of the factory floor to a staircase. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The glass factory where my father worked was one of those targets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There was all of the lights from the factory towers below us, those really hard lights, those bright white ones. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Abandoned factories, with rows of small square windows partly bashed in, ravaged as if by moths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “How I love my chocolate factory,” said Mr. Wonka, gazing down. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The textile factories that service Panem are loud with machinery, and the din also allowed word to pass safely, a pair of lips close to an ear, words unnoticed, unchecked. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But the most amazing part of the whole operation—V remembered the stories distinctly—was that the factory’s owner, the maker of every jar of peanut butter the place produced, had been Fair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They was setting up a factory to make the powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My dad worked on the factory floor, with all the big machines. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z So far I’ve told you about how chickens and cows are raised on factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z No roadside stands selling squash juice, no antique stores, no farm products or factory outlets. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This little French town has no factories, no supplies, and it is far from the front line. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z These factories exist in plant and animal cells today but may once themselves have been free-living cells. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The men who work in factories and shops in the city are coming into the lanes to have their supper, wash themselves and go to the pub. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I sent Felicia a few customers myself from the factory. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of my parents had finished high school; my mother did wear pants suits, which she purchased at a factory outlet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the evenings, after the factory shift was over, Comrade K. N. M. Pillai waylaid the workers of Paradise Pickles and shepherded them into his printing press. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d be an extra set of hands if we went to factory work again. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The clothes and jewelry and even the furniture all have histories, like they didn’t just come from a factory—they had lives before they enter my life. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “We are now going underground! All the most important rooms in my factory are deep down below the surface!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The girls were going over to a Greenpoint factory which needed hands for winter orders, poinsettias and artificial holly wreaths. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For reasons never explained, Shin was transferred to the camp’s garment factory, a crowded, chaotic, stressful work site where two thousand women and five hundred men made military uniforms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the middle of a night shift on the floor of the factory, Park alarmed Shin by bursting into song. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I remembered two Russian soldiers who had looted a clock factory. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw you running out of the hardware store from the factory window.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His mom would need to be woken up; she’d just gotten on at the Pepsi factory, working third shift. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was not really a shed, but a brick factory whose roof had fallen in. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “At last my valve seems to permit a visit to the factory. I must not pass up this opportunity. If I wait, it may seal up for several weeks.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I pleaded one day after a schoolmate said Mami was not getting her money from a factory but from men in the city. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Hugo could sell Nigel to a glue factory and Maggot would still say, “It's just like Hugo said, really, Aunt Alice.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I don’t make any small blocks, just big ones—the kind of blocks where you’d find lumber shops and factories and bars where Humble would hang out at and work. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The Soviets had spies inside various factories—Americans who were will- ing to secretly share information with the Russians, in exchange for cash. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the uniform all the boys wore in the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Siberian city had several huge public buildings, monuments from World War II, a reputable university and medical school, and some factories that provided decent jobs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Attached to this building, which Mr. Gonzalez referred to as “the brain center,” was that factory, a bamlike prototype of an airplane hangar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a mark in the middle of his forehead from a piece of iron that flew from a machine in a factory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Uncle Clyde came to work at one of the Ford car factories, on the assembly line where they made parts for the machines the army used in the war. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I guess it’s ironic that Apá works at a candy factory. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There are just so many humans, as if huge Russian factories cast new men every minute. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They had the same faded-loolang labels as every other thing Papa s factories made—the wafers and cream biscuits and bottled juice and banana chips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When Marina graduated from high school in 1929, her focus on chemistry helped her find a job as an apprentice in a dye factory, and six months later she became a full technician. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Union members picketed the factory until they were prohibited from doing so by a judge. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I imagined them just shutting off like factory machines at the end of a shift: functioning, purposeful, and then just out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Successive waves of immigrants filled its factories, working for little above minimum wage as they cut, sewed, and hustled the garments into trucks to carry across the country. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Blacks were their historical enemy, and, outside of the factories and except on election day, whites of means simply had no use for them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the largest buildings in the town were the factories, which employed a large percentage of the population. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Her mother was sewing uniforms for Jackboot soldiers in a Warsaw factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Thus it is here, in the poverty-stricken, racially segregated ghettos, where the War on Poverty has been abandoned and factories have disappeared, that the drug war has been waged with the greatest ferocity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This Hampden was a bombed-out expanse of water towers, rusted railroad tracks, sagging warehouses and factories with the doors boarded up and the windows broken out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mother’s factory got busier, too, and she began working two or three hours of overtime every day. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z They were unshaven, dressed in boots and coveralls like factory workers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And if the waiting people saw that the factory Modalali himself had come to see him, on his turf, he knew it would give off all sorts of useful signals. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hauptmann promises trips to Berlin; he unrolls schematics from an electronics factory in Austria and says, “Several ministries have demonstrated enthusiasm for our project.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He ran into one of the other factory workers at the bus stop, who told him with a smirk that Mammachi wanted to see him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mom would do that backbreaking job and then go straight to work at the factory the next morning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But beyond them lay a seething mass of factories and skyscrapers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In Detroit cigar factories, ten-year-old boys had to stand on benches in order to reach their work. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z At the time, there were more cases of pneumonia, typhus, and gangrene among button factory laborers than in any other industry. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z John’s office overlooked the factory floor from a balcony at the top of the staircase. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The factory farm produces more food much faster than the old solar-based farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Levittown was a factory town, and the schools proceeded along a factory model of efficiency. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The Irishman staked a claim, opened a brick factory on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, and made a fortune on the Northwest’s turn-of-the-century construction boom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I hoped that the washing and the scrubbing at the house and the factory and warehouse work back in my own time had made me strong enough just to survive. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, visitors—company people negotiating deals, government people negotiating bribes, factory people negotiating jobs—dropped by, parking their cars near the entrance to the orchard. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And later, when I’m getting ready to cross the iron bridge to the factory, there’s a man standing near the tracks below with a long heavy brow and a newspaper underneath his arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Not only did the slaves need to This 1875 engraving of a sugar harvest in Louisiana shows the factory near the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It happened once or twice a day to some girl in the factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z On August 14 Willy cut two teeth, as Emma recorded in her diary; and the next day there were riots in the pottery factories—including Wedgwood Pottery. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Once the slain had been avenged—and more important, the insult to white order repaid with interest—the civilians returned to their farms and factories and stores, and the patrollers resumed their rounds. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Acre wasn’t part of the tour for foreign dignitaries who came to view the splendor of Lowell—the model factory city of the New World. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Worrying about doing a job in a factory that I know nothing about. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Is there a toothpick factory just in existence for old guys? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The gauze doors of the factory had sprung hinges, and closed noisily on their own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If the men who worked in the matzoh factory saw us, they sometimes would separate us and give everyone hot baked matzohs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He leaves the factory with her these days. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I love factories. I’m from Detroit. This is like an Ansel Adams for me.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He saw a better future in factory work than in his family's trade of blacksmithing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Then the steel mills and factories closed and everybody left, like rats. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after we passed the Little Giants snack factory, the road became oddly quiet and the bus slowed to a halt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z My father left every morning at six to head to work at the factory, and returned by seven PM. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He then reported the damage up the factory’s chain of command. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They believed that what would work in the home would work in the factory, and what would work in the factory would work in the home. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Brother Quang drives us back to the sewing factory in his car made of mismatched parts. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z My supervisor at the brush factory told me my name had been crossed off the transfer list. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When the whistle blew dismissal, she ran out of the factory, reached the corner before Hildy did and sang out, “Hello, Johnny Nolan.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandmother said it was not secondhand but brand-new, right from the factory, I couldn't believe my eyes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The outside of the factory was a façade to placate the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Wow, it smells like a perfume factory,” said Seven, scrunching her nose. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z On the roof of the abandoned factory, the lonely drummer drummed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What came out was a hodgepodge of factories, primitive huts, and fabulous ranches owned by evil tycoons who had pretty daughters. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For another week the white men of both factories begged us to fight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Time enough to get you proper clothes and a place in the factory as well.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Is there a little nephew factory in the backyard? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “We have to hurry home. I must write—no, telephone—the Duryea factory in Massachusetts and place an order at once. The internal combustion engine. Think of it! The power of four horses!” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And, he said, he could get my mother a job working in a poultry processing factory. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The only reason they need the drugs is because they are being raised on factory farms and fed corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In retaliation, MacArthur ordered massive bombing strikes against "every installation, factory, city, and village" in North Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next day, after my father returned from the factory, we told him what had happened the night before. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Not long after my mother brought him home from the hospital, she returned to work at the factory. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It had worked hard at the syrup factory, and then it had marched a long way home in the cold. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my internships was at The Phoenix, a weekly newspaper run out of a dingy storefront on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the old Ex-Lax factory. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the older ladies at the factory told me about a man. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Lyddie wanted to ask her if she, too, was going for a factory girl, but she had a young man with her who appeared to be her brother, so Lyddie was hesitant to speak. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s more like a series of factories that turn raw materials into food products. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z How did I think I was going to survive in a factory, where each minute is identical to the next one, and not just each day? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fertilizer plants, hide tanners, glue factories, and brush makers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At cafeterias — eating factories, these seemed to him, most advanced and efficient, especially the Automats with their machines lit bright as a stage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, he got a few of his friends together from the factory. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And like most factories, the industrial farm is powered with fossil fuels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She would have seen cigar rollers stepping outside windowless factories for fresh air, their faces stained a permanent brown from tobacco dust. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He mentioned a woman named Beth, saying, "They threw away the mold and shut down the factory after making that one, you know what I mean?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If a judge were to mandate the dissolution of the company, its factories would remain standing and its workers, accountants, managers and shareholders would continue to live—but Peugeot SA would immediately vanish. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Before World War II the factory made heavy cotton pants and shirts for farmers and coal miners. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I am certain that 1 can perhaps do something to aid these factory folk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mistress mumbled and grumped orders, and in between complained of the guest who made herself out to be a lady when she was nothing but a factory girl putting on fancy airs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z One day he was sent across the street, to Lipowa Street 4, to the enamelware factory where he sometimes had repaired tools and equipment before the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z You have to have the factory right there, because sugar starts losing sucrose within hours of being picked. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We spent the next eight months of the war at Schindler's munitions factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They camped in the second floor of a low factory building that still had most of its roof. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The pretty heroine would have to get on piece work in the factory; her sensitive brother would have to go out peddling papers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He refused to sell the beasts to the rendering factories, maintaining that they deserved something of a retirement for their years of loyalty. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d always been impressed by the scenes of factories building planes and guns for the war effort—hundreds and hundreds of weapons coming off the line every day. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He holstered his gun, and as abruptly as he had entered the factory, he left, his two dogs trailing him out the door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I worked on an assembly line at a factory that made shopping carts. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When the layoff came there, they’d go on to another factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The mules, once they entered the mines, seldom ever saw daylight again until they died and were hoisted up to the ground and sold to animal processing factories. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Hideout is a dive bar made of wooden planks that's nestled between a factory and some Department of Transportation building. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Conformable to the Orgota law that each “unit” must have employment, I work from Eighth Hour to noon in a plastics factory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He steered Covadonga through an unfamiliar section of the city, down dark back streets in which garbage was piled against the walls of factories, in a forest of smokestacks that shut out the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The neighborhood of Key West where the cigar factories were located was called Gatoville. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I go straight to the market after the factory and buy what’s left, which is a ten-pound sack of small potatoes, some carrots, and four onions. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Flossie supported her mother and brother by working as a turner in a kid-glove factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The essential contradiction between the operational methods of research laboratories and industrial factories became excruciatingly clear. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We can set up factories to manufacture our own necessities! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They, headed downriver, across Uglyville, over the greenbelt and farther out to the transport ring, where the factories stuck their heads aboveground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The building housed employees of the glass factory where my father worked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I run out the door, all the way across Przemyśl to the factory, and when I hurry onto the floor, Herr Braun is waiting. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Also, I knew I’d be embarrassed if she was sweaty and lintheaded from the factory or if, Lord forbid, I saw her coming out of a privy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “He wanted to ship it back to his factory in New Jersey. They have a garden.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She thought that he ought to be grateful that he was allowed on the factory premises at all, and allowed to touch things that Touchables touched. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Foremen in the factory, who were prisoners chosen by guards for their toughness, generally looked the other way when seamstresses were beaten. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Dweeb flipped a switch and the factory floor came up on the monitor in grainy black and white. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The factory workers weren’t allowed to take unscheduled breaks, so they all wore pads in case they needed to use the bathroom. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, after the contract work was finished, he was asked to remain on the job to install his motion study methods within the factory itself. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The first factories were places like this cotton weaving plant, drawn in England in 1835. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Orders were pouring into northern factories for food, clothes, and munitions for soldiers fighting in Europe, and the factories were looking for new workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z No one said much as they made a simple camp and ate a dinner of packaged food brought up from the Asheville factories. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z For a while she was in a factory that printed business cards for people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He told us, “Yeah. Jefferson Park? Yeah. That was knocked down to make an air factory.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After they were broken in, they might take on other tasks or, if they were lucky, get a place at the factory. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Wafer” was too secular, wafer was what one of Papa’s factories made —chocolate wafer, banana wafer, what people bought their children to give them a treat better than biscuits. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Anne took the part of a superintendent at the factory and the younger children played themselves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He even went so far as to "nationalize" property and factories owned by Americans, repossessing them for the benefit of the Cuban people. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Shin feared it would be months, even years before they would be allowed outside the factory at dusk near a section of fence that could not be seen from a guard tower. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She takes extra jobs, one at a candy factory for $2.25 an hour. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The worst violence took place at dusk, when the city’s thousands of black factory workers were attacked as they walked home from work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I decided that someday when I was rich, I was going to buy the factory and let the workers use the bathroom whenever they wanted. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources: radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories, and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z You need to be down at the factory by 9. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He's seldom home anymore, since he also works at the MützenFabrik, a factory that makes stiff military hats, the kind with the visor in front. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z On the way there, he stopped at the rubber factory and asked for Sissy’s foreman. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He particularly disliked the cutter, who reported on everyone who stole food from the factory garden. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Shin saw a truck arrive at the factory and watched as the ailing prisoners were loaded into it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I did remember some vague factory; perhaps I was being sent back there. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, suddenly, when V had been just a little girl, the factory had shut down. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I can work in a factory,” I said, “just like Uncle Piet.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Could there be more descriptions of offices and factories and committees? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Still, in 2001, when Kaiser closed, McClellan discovered that the job market did not value his factory skills nearly as much as it did four years of college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, a foreman from the garment factory herded Shin, Park, and about twenty-five other prisoners up the mountain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’m saying we should talk about it. Not everyone has private islands. Some people work on them. Some work in factories. Some don’t have work. Some don’t have food.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Schindler had expanded his factory beyond pots and pans to producing war material. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z At first Congress didn’t know what to do with the crazy viruses that kept developing down there and killing off entire factories of animals. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Yet the brush factory too had its horrors. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Doctors, factory workers, lawyers, teachers, students, ministers, defied and went to jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly an extraordinary woman, she eventually became the manager of a successful glass factory. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mealtime portions in the farm’s cafeteria were no larger than at the cement factory, the textile mill, or the mines. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Did you offer to pay him in pants now that you work at a pants factory?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s your father. They called me from the factory, they found him lying dead on his desk.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And also they work out how much new houses and offices and factories will cost to build. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had owned a dye factory, but he had died a long time ago. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that the factory wasn't ready wasn't the biggest surprise or the worst one by far. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It’s recently built, oblong in shape, flat- roofed, undecorated, unrevealing, sort of like a factory. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Partly by design, then, and partly by custom, blacks and whites were kept apart in the tobacco factories, working on different floors and even in separate buildings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The foreman and another worker carried a cot and blanket from the factory. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Later on, sewing machines were shipped in, and one barracks was turned into a clothing factory. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There were spoons hidden all over the factory, on rafters, in drawers, behind radiators, and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, at supper, someone remarked casually that since the army needed ammunition, wouldn’t it be proper for the ammunition factories to stay open on Sunday? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom continued to be the breadwinner, working in the factory while my dad recuperated from his injuries. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Returning to the factory, Shin noticed that Kang would not meet his eye. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Of course, it was not only people in factories who wanted to see astronauts, but also a lot of other people around the country. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One wet afternoon the following November, a Greyhound bus deposited Perry in Worcester, a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up-and-down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z After he left us, Schindler went to find my mother in the factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Every person, just as every corporation, must tend to his or her own economic destiny, just as our parents and grandparents in the mills, shoe shops and factories did. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It stopped and hung in mid-air, hovering like a helicopter, hovering over the factory and over the very town itself which lay spread out below them like a picture postcard! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z When he and Kerling had taken the train to Cincinnati, they noticed that the railroad stations, the railroads, and the factories they passed were well guarded. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The low cement pickle vats silhouetted in the gloom made the factory floor look like an indoor cemetery for the cylindrical dead. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, most German beer is consumed within 30 miles of the factory where it is brewed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A workman from Papito's factory had to come and take out the whole lock, making a hole in the door, and letting the hysterical Fifi out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In November, not long after Park was assigned to the textile factory, four Bowiwon guards paid a surprise visit to the prisoners’ nightly meeting of self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Aunt Bushy had, as expected, left school after Standard Six and was now working at a garment factory on the outskirts of Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After the festivities, Schindler still had the energy to make his rounds of the factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The girl who lost her big toe in the mines at the age of eleven, Moon Sung Sim, was assigned to the textile factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This created new jobs, and, within four years, nearly all factory workers were employed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Dodgers led throughout most of the game, but everyone knew the Yankees were luckier than mice in a cheese factory. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The cells in a drop of blood contain a different sort of molecular factory, the mitochondrion, which combines food with oxygen to extract useful energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Silkworm and Miss Spider, after they had both been taught to make nylon thread instead of silk, set up a factory together and made ropes for tightrope walkers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z When another traveler asked her business in Lowell, she smiled and said, “Why I work in the Hamilton Mill there. Yes,” she added, answering her questioner’s stare, “I’m one of those factory girls. ” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Then there are new islands of capital conquest: factories in the Middle West, food-processing plants, tool and die works, lumber and pulp. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When Morrie was a teenager, his father took him to a fur factory where he worked. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother didn’t want to work in a factory. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z On Main Street, in stores, in factories and offices, in every sector, black and white mixed all day as a matter of course. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There are no agricultural fields in sight, just factories that make glass and furniture. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z For the first two days after the injury, Shin’s foreman filled in on the factory floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Many of the white men in this part of town worked as foremen or laborers in the larger factories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Virgil had long suspected that his brothers were crafted out of a factory that made perfect, athletic, perpetually happy children, and he was made from all the leftover parts. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She said this man owned many carpet factories and lived in a mansion located in the British Concession of Tientsin, the best section of the city where Chinese people could live. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d walk into a factory like the Zeiss works in Germany or the Pierce Arrow plant in this country and announce that he could speed up production by one-fourth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The male technicians at the factory were angry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The majority of the women who found their way to the military laundry room had left behind jobs as domestic servants or as stemmers in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z An arrow on the edge of my map pointed south to Katahdin Iron Works, site of an improbable nineteenth-century factory in the woods and now a state historical monument. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z About 10 P.M., he smells a familiar cue: a coffee-roasting factory next to the redbrick station. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Even then, St. Louis was a big city, but before too long the buildings were lower, mostly the back sides of factories and then lots of slumlike apartments. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He returned with my mother and found work in a food factory; on weekends he did domestic work at beach cottages and rentals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some of the children looked like walking puffballs, they were so bulky, but their gear had been made in factories and laboratories far away from the cold, and it couldn’t really cope. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I set out to visit the clank and whirr and hiss of the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the teacher made his announcements, new masters—foremen from camp factories, mines, and farms—came to the school and led students away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Dad says a factory is no place for a woman. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z By the next week she was feeling truly ready to go back to work and remembering with every breath her last act at the factory. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Even then, the company could borrow money, hire new employees, build new factories and buy new machinery. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The management veteran McClellan was a doctor’s son, just out of high school, when he decided he did not need to go much farther than the big factory at the edge of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t live in Montgomery either; all he did was work at that automobile factory and sneak off places— nobody knew where—and hang around Tommy’s Barbershop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The vacuum cleaner business was so brisk, in fact, that the company that made them opened a branch factory in the town. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I worked in a factory in Morristown, New Jersey, where my parents had moved. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z At the factory my father had been warned not to leave after work; the streets were too dangerous, so he stayed overnight, in relative safety. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z To protest this unfairness, Fannie and many union workers walked out of the factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Located near the Taedong River, its grounds lie at the entrance to Valley 2, not far from the hydroelectric dam and factories that make glassware and porcelain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But there’s not a single mattress factory in San Antonio, so what was the point of that? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was not far from the uniform factory. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Schindler kept to his usual schedule, entertaining until the early morning hours and then making his rounds in the factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, the spread of jazz into northern and Midwestern cities had coincided with the massively increased availability of wartime factory work, which had encouraged mass black migration in the same direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘Low-down factory tag. I done paid my money and I ghy ride. White man, you make her give me back my ticket.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Yes, Stalin admitted, thousands of Soviet towns and factories lay in ruins. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because any robot with a brain like that would, one, never have left the factory, and two, be spotted immediately if it ever was. I tested Dave, you know.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z What was on Division Street was Aunt Nancy, her husband, whom we all called Mr. Harrison, the bakery she operated, pushcarts, a matzoh factory, and Jewish boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Sissy worked in a rubber factory and was very wild as far as men were concerned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One I read said the mob was from that tire factory—” “What do you read, the Worker?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I have my eye on a potato chip factory a ten-minute drive from the Blue Haven, for example, or I can always search out L.L. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the somewhat discourteous questions and answers of the boat song, Rahel’s voice floated into the factory. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The screws were stubborn, most of them factory- tight, resisting the twists of the screwdriver. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them worked in factories, or did, before factories shut down owing to a lack of electricity and manufacturing supplies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Like a factory, that boy,” she used to say to friends, and smiled a desperate smile meant to make her appear brave. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Raizel could have gone to any number of factories and processing plants, but I had a feeling where I’d find her. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They have a fight that sounds like it belongs on the factory floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This building happened to be a famous factory where they made chocolate, and almost at once a great river of warm melted chocolate came pouring out of the holes in the factory wall. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z The garment factory is a sprawling cluster of seven large buildings, all of which are visible on satellite photographs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The factory’s hiring. If I get on there, I can maybe get an advance on my paycheck.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z One time the factory owner selected my father to attend an advanced course in tool design in the nearby city of Białystok. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They had a locker room in the glass factory where we changed and put on our work aprons, and I hung up the phone and went in there and howled out my grief. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For people who take in washing and work as cooks, who pick cotton and work at the hot dye vats of the factories. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His observations of the Keepers’ activities and his understanding of the factory’s machinery showed an intelligent mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While agricultural workers starved in Ukraine, record numbers of laborers produced factory goods. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Gerry had a good job as a color matcher in a button factory, mixing dyes to any color a retailer wanted to make his dresses distinctive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Mama was slung over his shoulder like the jute sacks of rice his factory workers bought in bulk at the Seme Border. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The word is a symbol and a delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Organic” factory farm chickens live only slightly better lives than non-organic factory chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Fidelito chirped and warbled about rotting whales all the way back to the factory. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Seamstresses not cleaning the superintendent’s room were fair game for the chief foreman and other prisoners with supervisory jobs in the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He explained how his factory took leftover cooking grease from restaurants and turned it into nice, white soap. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They were mighty near as poor as factory folks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Someone had to put that factory out of operation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Respectables had steady work, their wages were consistently low, as they found themselves shut out of higher-paying factory jobs in Chicago’s fast-growing industrial base. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Hanako had known two former college girls, previously rich, who’d gone to work in a canning factory just to get out of the camps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Along what had been country lanes rich with berries, high wire fences and mile-long factories stretched, and the yellow smoke of progress hung over all, fighting the sea winds’ efforts to drive them off. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them worked as day laborers in the giant factory farms that surrounded the city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In 1999, she opened a shelter for injured migrants in a tiny former tortilla factory someone lent her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The nurse said that this was the factory hospital . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he said, “Yeah. Sure. Do you know how inefficient trees are, next to an air factory?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What do you really need to know in order to get by as a computer engineer, an insurance agent, a history teacher or a factory worker? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then you must go to the factory today,” the office manager agreed enthusiastically. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike at the poultry factory, we could come and go freely at the hatchery. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The older man explained that he was in bad health—working in the tobacco factory had ruined his lungs and heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Partly it was the grinding exhaustion of work in the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The one who tried to make the factory workers kill me.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He pressed a different button, and the elevator dropped lower, and soon it was hovering just above the entrance gates to the factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I’d heard that there had been union trouble at the factory, but I didn’t know the details. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d come into her factory office twice a week and they’d close the door, smooch it up, and have wine and cheese and crackers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She sent a group of women from the 586th to visit the Saratov factory, which wasn’t far away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Not long after that, Nazi entrepreneurs arrived on the scene in the hope of making their fortune off the misery of Jewish factory owners who were no longer permitted to own a business. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The new jack, never used and bright with factory paint, was stiff and unruly, and it was not designed for the overhang of Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A report about a fourteen-year-old worker’s accidental death at one of the Union Stockyards’ kosher slaughterhouses, accompanied by a brief statement by the factory boss, Mr. Katz. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Standing at the steam table, watching as the population of B-block shuffled by, each in-mate receiving his plate from the servers, I always thought of an assembly line in a poorly run explosives factory. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, we began going to another site at the other end of the veld, where a chicken factory, Sunnyside, dumped loads of dead, diseased chickens, and rejected eggs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew enough about factory life already to realize that good workers in the weaving room made good money. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He moved from a custodial job to one in a factory as a machinist. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We are quartered in a small dark factory adapted to the purpose. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Four years later, Dorothy Vaughan and her twelve fellow teachers were welcoming 301 education-hungry youngsters, urged along by parents who wanted more for their children than a life of work in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a critical talent for a project facing such tight deadlines that immense factories would have to be designed and built for processes that could not be tested in advance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A year later, when I was well enough to work at a tortilla factory, a machine tore two fingertips off my left hand. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I spend the next days sweating at the factory and sweating at Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z If all the workers stuck together and didn’t give in, the factory had to shut down, and the company owners lost money. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I can at last describe to you our factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We send them to factories and press them into breaded sticks and patties. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I earned a little better weekly pay check working at the Gar Wood factory in Detroit, where big garbage truck bodies were made. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the tiniest worker in the factory. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “But Mr. Olin said that you came over to the factory this morning, looking for me with a knife.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Store and the rooms in back became a going- away factory. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Under apartheid, if you were a black man you worked on a farm or in a factory or in a mine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He’d gather as much information as he could and try to intercept Caesar at the factory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But of course Mama wouldn’t let her work in a factory again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z God above, if I had the fare I’d be off to England myself for I’m sure they need women in the factories. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Why couldn't I remember what kind of factory it was? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was a manager at a factory. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Like viruses, they simply take over the molecular machinery of a much larger, well-functioning cell and change it from a factory for making more cells into a factory for making more viroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is ridiculous because she’s a doctor, and because she works in a notepad factory. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They had their own factory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and a growing list of customers, including a store uptown owned by another Jewish immigrant family, the Bloomingdale brothers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Every now and then, Bertha looked dreamily over at Gus like he was a movie star and not some scraggly haired man who worked in a mattress factory over in Cooperville. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But this one agent said maybe he could interest some supermarket chain in buying the factory for a store. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid who suggests the Shoemakers in honor of the old moccasin factory is laughed out of the auditorium. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve been too sick to work, and the factory sent the police, and when Helena didn’t know where I was, they beat her.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They put him in charge of a floor in the munitions factory because he was so precise. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They thought about farms and cities and factories. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Feynman would have to go there, inspect the factory, and help them prevent a catastrophic nuclear accident. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Living in San Francisco and not playing Book Scavenger was like living in a chocolate factory but not eating any sweets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Twill taught at school, Bonnie was one of her pupils, and when the final bell had rung, both of them spent a four-hour shift at the factory that specialized in the Peacekeeper uniforms. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “He seems to be right over our heads,” said the factory foreman, a short slender mulatto with large buckteeth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Graybeak brought us to the roof windows, and we looked down into the factory and saw machines building sparkling heads and torsos and limbs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She says the rich won’t eat brawn because it’s what they scoop off floors and counters in bacon factories and you never know what you’re getting. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z What I saw was not the nondescript factory building it had been when my father first worked there. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes a brief tour: a glimpse of the sea in one district, towering forests in another, ugly factories, fields of wheat, stinking refineries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When the weather turned cold, my father managed to tuck a few pieces of coal from the factory furnaces in his pockets, even though it was forbidden to take anything from the factory grounds. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After the stained glass and worn mahogany pews of the First Presbyterian, GOP felt something like an office building, or even a factory. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the walls had closed in around him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The factory soon came in view and, just beyond it, the river that powered the machines. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Oak Ridge directors agreed to redesign the factory with this new information in mind. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There were sounds of disorder in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them might be filled by grownups who were laid off at the Finkle factory. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “If you ever want a job in my furniture factory . . .” he says, but stops in mid-sentence. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The men worked sunup to sundown like Fannie had in the garment factory, but they went underground with picks and shovels. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z He was just working in the factory and they came and took him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z On the way to the factory, I see two bodies hanging stiff and frozen from the ghetto fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The plague spread to every house, infecting schools and factories, so that no one felt secure. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The company owns factories, machinery and showrooms, and employs mechanics, accountants and secretaries, but all these together do not comprise Peugeot. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the bugs were worked out of the Bonsack machines, Duke churned cigarettes out of his factories at an unprecedented rate—823 million in 1889—and at a price his competition couldn’t match. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The tobacco factories would be having a change of shift. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The syrup tasted like thin honey laced with hickory smoke, and everybody who worked in the factory secretly spooned it all day long. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The night bombers took off in a line three minutes after each other—just like a factory production line. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Up to the time Chacko arrived, the factory had been a small but profitable enterprise. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother listened horror-struck as he told us what he had learned from his factory contacts originally from Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I can’t find the factory, at least not before 5:00 P.M., and pull into a shopping center parking lot to find a way to get turned around. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother starts sewing at a factory; Brother Quang begins repairing cars. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Well, one guy,” Mr. Levy continued calmly, “this very aggressive-looking agent, gave me some hope. Like all the others, he said, ‘Nobody wants a clothing factory today. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The word soon spread through the factory and the white men looked at me with new eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard of other fights being staged between other black boys, and each time I heard those plans falling from the lips of the white men in the factory I eased out of earshot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I know he works in a factory, but if he could be anything in the world, what would it be, you know? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Lewis said, “In Flint they are people who are trying to get unions in the automobile factories.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The roar of engines interspersed with rolling, cranking sounds like chains hoisting machinery in an old, grimy factory. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The blue-collar factory jobs that had been plentiful in urban areas in the 1950s and 1960s had suddenly disappeared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was never sure why, but one morning, when the other tailors and I assembled, we were told our services at the factory were no longer required. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The BDM provided child care, or Kindergarten, for the children of mothers who worked in factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “If you’ve always done factories, I think it’s different,” I told her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He talks about the fire we had at the factory, a small one that shut down everyone’s machines, but not for long, and how bad the smoke was. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They were around me now, inspecting my body, and I watched with growing bewilderment, thinking, what is a factory hospital? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if they do, believe me, those factory cows don’t graze on grass that springs out of dirt. I’m not ignorant,” she said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Planning to escape meant waiting for a work detail that would get Shin and Park out of the factory and give them an excuse to be near the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I reconnected with Mike Tanner, who had worked on a machine near mine in Schindler's factory in Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Alvarez seconded Nahmias’s perception that the cyclotron was used “as a radioactivity factory first of all because great numbers of new radioisotopes could be discovered that way with very little effort.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I had seen the factory farms and feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Isaac was unafraid of the rumors being thrown around about new factories where experiments were held and the danger that was coming. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the post the camera focused upon several square feet of the rusted interior of the factory’s roof. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They stepped into a room as full of activity as a factory. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Sugar plantations were farms, but they had to run like factories—with human beings as the tireless machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Sosie snaked an arm around Jennifer’s waist and bent her side to side as if they were a robot couple taking a turn around some factory dance floor. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In the factory the silence swooped down once more and tightened around the twins. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Without permission, he had walked away from the cement factory, where he had apparently done something wrong. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When 1 am once again whole, I shall visit those factory people; I have deep and abiding convictions concerning social action. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just slaughterhouses and meatpacking factories that occupied the Yards’ four hundred acres. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My father, brother, and I were packed into a cattle car along with other male workers bound for Schindler's new factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Papa no longer went to the other factories as often as he used to. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I will never know what he felt at his last factory job. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There are telegrams for offices, shops, factories where there’s no hope of a tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Because when the workers processed the pineapple, they discarded the cores in a huge pile behind the factory. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z That night Mam’s sister, Aunt Aggie, came home from her job in the clothing factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the elevator had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Interspersed in these residential areas were a variety of businesses — paint factories, lumberyards, distilleries, gasworks, mills, furniture manufacturers, warehouses, and coal distributors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The factory owners in Germany have grown wealthy;—dysentery dissolves our bowels. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His hands were callused from the work he’d done at the salt factory, and he was afraid the hard labor had made his fingers clumsy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The factories in which they worked inhumanely long hours were extremely dangerous. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She had once gone to the ladies’ room in the morning and been found by Mr. Gonzalez late that afternoon asleep on a pile of piece goods in the factory loft. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Plant cells today have tiny molecular factories, called chloroplasts, which are in charge of photosynthesis—the conversion of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My recent favorite is a snowman that works in a furnace factory. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z My sister Viola was working at an electronics factory on Long Island. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She tried to turn against the tide, to get away while there was still time, but she was caught in the chattering, laughing trap of factory girls pushing themselves forward into the new day. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At Płaszów we briefly reunited with my sister, whose factory had also been closed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z All classrooms were crowded, swarms were on the crosswalks, the dormitories were as noisy as factories, every bulletin board was a forest of notices. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Worse than that. Yesterday the teachers who were under investigation had to climb the factory chimney.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And the changes go beyond the factory floor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They said our next reposting would he to a chocolate factory but it was cardboard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a factory on Eaton that canned pineapple from Cuba. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor squinted upward at a lightening sky, “I expect he’s already under way. He advises me that there is a shoe factory in the town and his men intend to, ah, requisition some footgear. ” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at the rubble piles where buildings used to be, in the windows of the shops or watching the factory workers—the factories were all German now—go to and from their shifts. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z England was the first country in the world to shift from making most of its money in traditional places, such as farms, mines, or small shops, to factories. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A love of nature keeps no factories busy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z America's factories efficiently mass-produced military weapons, planes, tanks, cars, and other machinery with fewer workers and at a lower cost. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It happened to another girl at the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I was right— Khan Sahib’s family was building it, but it wasn't a factory. It’s a literacy center.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Upstream, clean mothers washed clothes and pots in unadulterated factory effluents. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thiel had lived in America for fourteen years and worked as a toolmaker for automobile factories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Kaiser, debt- ridden after a series of failed management initiatives and a long strike, closed the plant in 2001 and sold the factory carcass for salvage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Shin’s foreman helped him leave the superintendent’s office and escorted him back to the factory floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I saw Mrs. Huffer on the way to the pants factory and she was worried,” Mom added. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He owned a fleet of trawlers called ‘Pecheurs d’Atlantique’ and a large canning factory to can the sardines his trawlers brought in. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Others established factories and warehouses to make and store supplies for the Union army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Or, possibly, the virus had nothing to do with the cotton factory, and Mr. Yu. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, the real source turned out to be air pollution from cars and factories. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Shin watched him choose a different girl every few days, ordering her to clean his room, which was located inside the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island, which was his principal occupation for much of his adult years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Antonina’s father, who worked in an ore extraction factory, aggressively disapproved of her flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Then I asked if stammers’re like zits that you grow out of, or if kids with stammers’re more like toys that're wired wrong at the factory and stay busted all their lives. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I jumped at the chance. I had been helping out in my uncle’s factory, wanting to do my share, so I was learning what hard work was.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z What little money French earned at the tobacco factory he spent on Minnie’s homemade liquor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My father was one of the few employees to move with the factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A word to the right person, and the sole supporter of a family was laid off at the factory. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They washed windows and swept floors and cleaned lavatories and put jars into boxes and sealed cardboard boxes in a factory that made malt syrup. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When I came to New York after high school, I worked in my Aunt Mary’s leather factory and stayed with Buheh, who had moved to the Bronx. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But Olive had made arrangements, on pain of not going up, for the plane to try to fly as far as the sugar factory before it crashed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason the factory had shut down all those years ago, it was a shame. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z When Shin caught rats in the factory, Park insisted on patience. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Evy got a job in the factory where he had worked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If tomorrow I worked at some kind of factory, it would go differently for me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And your supplier’s inventory department had to be seamlessly connected to its supplier’s supplier, which was a factory in China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He was a C student without much of a future, just out of high school, when he got his break: the job on the Kaiser factory floor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We flew out to the edge of the city, to a really big building called a factory. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The flaming wall torches of the Penitentiary seemed to glare angrily as they approached, until finally Redd motioned for everyone to huddle out of sight at the side of an old stucco-walled factory. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z College students worked inside the factory in the summer, and some never went back to school. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I heard a million! My uncle worked in one of his factories before Liberation, and he knew all about Old Rong.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Ammu did as much work in the factory as Chacko, whenever he was dealing with food inspectors or sanitary engineers, he always referred to it as my Factory, my pineapples, my pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the modern availability of synthetic fertilizers produced by chemical factories, the major source of crop fertilizer today in most societies is still animal manure—especially of cows, but also of yaks and sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only the young would work in the factories. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On another occasion, as Schindler strolled across the factory floor, he caught me away from my station, watching a complicated machine as it was being redesigned to perform a different task. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z At the factory, Shin’s life again became complicated. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Clothes weren’t made in a single big factory. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Men of consequence and means, who had made their fortunes exploiting laborers in their factories, drifted along next to those who had lost their lives toiling on those same factory machines. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Beatrice worked a night shift, folding cardboard at a packaging factory that made boxes for takeout pizza chains. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Lourdes works on a cleaning crew, then on a factory assembly line. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Soon they came to deserted streets flanked by old factories and continued on until the She Elephant led them into a dark alley. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The men seemed to think this was a brilliant plan, and Matt, who had no idea what they were talking about, said the plankton factory sounded fine. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From that altitude the streets and lanes of the city were mere lines on a page, the houses and factories a child’s collection of boxes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Gold’s Soviet contact, known to Gold only as “Fred,” told Gold to get a job at a weapons factory—someplace with technology worth stealing. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All of this happens in a factory called a “wet mill.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Yes, you must go to the factory while your valve is operating,” the office manager said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z G. was a storekeeper in a cotton factory in the town of Nzara. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The factory is full of huge machines that make the steel and cut it and bend it into watever shapes they need. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He said that where he came from, I wouldn’t be in school—I’d be working other people’s land or in a factory. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Perfect, isn’t it? Sounds just like him. He’s giving a campaign speech at some factory—I’ve never figured out which one it was—but it sounds just like him, doesn’t it?” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My mother was to stay at Emalia to help close the factory, but that was little comfort to her. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Since 1818, the city had spread out along the river, warehouse by warehouse, factory by factory. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Schindler's factory would be closing, and he would start reducing his workforce. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There was work here in Detroit—cars, houses, factories, highways. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factory. Why is my daughter in space?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched the hands on the chronometer creep toward seven o’clock, and then from far below came a distant blast of the factory whistle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Down that way is the old pulpwood and paper factory. Remember how that stank?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Through the hanging smoke, Lefty saw other streetcars letting off other workers, hundreds and hundreds of gray figures trudging across the paved courtyard toward the factory gates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “She’ll oversee everything in the east, the factories and our new oil interests. She has always had an excellent eye for business.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He proudly introduced us around his glass factory, and he always welcomed David and me at his work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A majority of the nongraduates are young men, and some come from towns where the factory work ethic, to get working as soon as possible, remains strong, even if the factories themselves are vanishing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “And did they go back to their own factories and tell?” asked Charlie. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z And even then they all refused to ride back to the factory in the elevator. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He apparently had stolen the cloth from the factory floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Such boldness had to be handled properly; he might be able to do something with the factory workers which would make Myma look like a reactionary in the field of social action. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I—I’ve come to hate factory life. Oh Betsy, I hate what it’s doing to me. I don’t even know myself anymore. This corporation is turning me into a sour old spinster.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s nice to have friends, and besides I wanted a little time to think about the things I’d seen, the huge factories and plants and the scurry and production. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His work experience gave him an edge for sabotaging factories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Luckily the factory was off yesterday. You know how hot . . . the chimney gets. She couldn’t have ...” I couldn’t say a word. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When we returned home from the factory, we were surprised to find Lynnie lying in bed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The sight of them makes me wonder whether I’ve been living over an underground meat factory all this time. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We have to wait a long time for Dad to walk the miles from the cement factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory, echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z She yells at us all the time because Dad is from the North and he never sends money home from England where he is working in a munitions factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Everyone’s parents in my neighborhood work in factories, so the idea of a “business trip” is foreign to me, but I don’t ask any questions so he doesn’t think I’m stupid. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In 1943, a strike at the R. J. Reynolds factory in nearby Winston-Salem brought the always present but rarely discussed class divisions within that black community to the surface. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z While luxury stores, miraculous finance companies, exotic restaurants, and import business were flourishing, the unemployed lined up outside factory gates waiting for a chance to work at the minimum wage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The open box—filled with what looks like a fluffy plush puppy—rolls down the conveyor belt in a noisy toy factory operating at full throttle. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The factory made a few rubber toys as a blind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The wages and working conditions of the farmworkers in an organic field aren’t much different from those on non- organic factory farms. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Better check with that foreman in the factory. What’s his name? Look, suppose you sign those letters like always. I have to go.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder there was such apathy in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple wondered if they were related or just came from the same factory that manufactured indecently rich people. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Do you think that’s right to fix it so little children can work in factories?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The trolley trundled toward them, only half full since most of the factory men caught an earlier car. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It said that the factories had been closed because the owners were giving all their profits to foreigners and that the churches had been infiltrated by American sympathizers. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The Republic has thousands of underground factories for the animals. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He grabbed his winter coat and soft, peaked brown trench cap before rushing out of the service quarters on the factory grounds where he lived with his father and younger brother. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Give me some cookies and crackers,” she said, “and I can tell you not only what factory they came from but what rework they were using.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Factory my eye. He means a sure enough factory.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Donovan considered, “Not much, I think. If Dave is like the preliminary model we saw back at the factory, there’s a special co-ordinating circuit that would be the only section involved.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “The union wants to give the factory workers three days off with pay for grief leave, like if a family member dies.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now,” he declared, “is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The scent was overpowering, as if there'd been an explosion at a perfume factory. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Somewhere about this time, I left the Gar Wood factory and I went to work for the Ford Motor Company, one of the Lincoln- Mercury Division assembly lines. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad raced back from his job at a factory that made food for chickens. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "The kind of fellow I want,” he’d say, "is the fellow who is so lazy he won’t even scratch himself. You must have one of those around some place. Every factory has them.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Our apartment was in a working-class, industrial neighborhood just a few blocks from my father's factory on Lipowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z An eager sun outshone the neon sign atop the Squibb factory even before the first bell beckoned students to their homerooms. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She struggles through the difficult pregnancy, working in a refrigerated fish factory, packing and weighing salmon and catfish all day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z No. He explained that the molasses went to a factory where it was boiled down into something called industrial alcohol. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z As soon as my system becomes used to the office, I shall take the giant step of visiting the factory, the bustling heart of Levy Pants. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She would be a true factory girl in a few hours’ time. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The extra ration we get for working in the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was working in a tequila factory and living in a two-bedroom house that had electricity and a water well. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you saying? We are not to be at war. I will let you have your little factory when we are married. But first, the weapons.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There was no free fuel for its aging factories, no guaranteed market for its often-shoddy goods, and no access to cheap, Soviet-made chemical fertilizers on which state farms had become dependent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Minerwa factory, says Herr Braun, our director, sweating in his suit while standing on a crate, is a system of rules and regulations, where we, the workers, will be valued. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z On the day they were due, my heart raced as I stood at the factory window on the second floor, waiting for the women to appear. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z All these questions and a dozen others raced through my mind as our group of thirty approached the Emalia factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Whenever I walk past the factory, the gates seem to be closed.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Then we pretended to walk up a flight of stairs, to indicate that we had entered the factory. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “My wife’s people are Ayemenem people. I know where your factory is. Paradise Pickles, isn’t it? He told me. Your Mon.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The background was dominated everywhere by big, prisonlike factories, all of which appeared to be shut. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In just a few months, a staff of six black scientists and technicians built a factory at Tuskegee unlike any seen before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The burbs ended suddenly, a last band of parks fading into the transport ring, where underground factories stuck their heads aboveground and cargo trucks drove concrete roads all day and night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Marina decided to introduce the factory technicians to the pilots who’d be flying their planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dozer and Petunia spring off the factory floor and grab on to the swinging steel arms. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It rolls through putrid white smoke from a Kimberly-Clark factory that turns sugarcane pulp into Kleenex and toilet paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My mom did this several nights a week, from Sunday to Thursday—after working all day at the factory. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The camshaft flies around the factory until a man unhooks it, attaches it to the engine block, growing eccentric now with fan blades, pipes, and spark plugs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Monet worked hard in the pump house during the week, and on his weekends and holidays he would visit forested areas near the sugar factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was a factory worker whose education ended at the eighth grade; his mother had some factory jobs, too. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Globalization and technological change have shuttered factories, killing jobs that were once stepping-stones to the middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But the prohibition on sex meant nothing to the factory superintendent and the handful of favored prisoners who served as foremen. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On this day, and on no other, you must come to the factory gates at ten o’clock sharp in the morning. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “How long did you work there? In the airplane factory.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The factory was not yet ready to start producing ammunition. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We also found out that we astronauts were considered celebrities, and the workers at the factory wanted to meet us, and wanted us to sign things. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They left everything they knew to take hard jobs in factories and farms for ten cents an hour, ten hours a day, even though signs around town greeted them with three words: No Filipinos Allowed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The cement factory is miles outside Limerick and that means Dad has to be out of the house by six in the morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That prisoner slept on the same dormitory floor and worked in the factory as a garment cutter, a job that allowed him to accumulate scraps of fabric, which he traded for food and other goods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As punishment, the Soviets wanted Germany to pay high reparations and to be forbidden to rebuild their factories and farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Seems like everybody who does have a job works at the auto-parts factory on the corner of Broad and Market. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Number nine had smokestacks, like a tiny factory. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Not in this sea of workers with factory injuries. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z As I stare at the graffiti on an abandoned factory with shattered windows, he takes my hand and squeezes it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “He works at a candy factory all day, then comes home, watches TV, and eventually goes to sleep. Seems pretty sad to me.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At a huge square opening in the factory wall, other men were taking bales of cotton off of a wagon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The tea break was one of the ways the brutal sugar-slave world of the plantations and the new work rhythm of the industrial factory were linked. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mam herself could get a job in an English factory making bombs or something and God knows we wouldn’t know ourselves with the money pouring in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As Shin and Park did their rounds in the garment factory, Park explained that Hwang had criticized Kim Jong U for turning North Korea into a corrupt feudal state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As we were passing the old Medusa Cement factory, I heard a long hiss and thought that my yia yia, sitting next to me, was sighing over her misfortunes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “This was the hub of the mill, the heartbeat,” he said as we stood on a factory floor that was longer than two football fields. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z For meals they have cabbage and barley in the factory canteen at noon, endless ration lines in the evening. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “He said we have to build a factory for them,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Mom was down working at the pants factory, so I just hung around with the farrier. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After its uncertain launch, its stolid reliability had become almost boring; the Crocker Lab seemed more like an industrial factory every day, so why not push past the boundaries of the predictable once again? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mam says it’s a long way to the cement factory even if he’s a fast walker. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Johnny’s father rescued his family from the water by throwing them in a buggy and lugging them up the bank himself, but he couldn’t save the factory machinery. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No waitressing, nursing homes, or housecleaning this time; I’m psyched for a change—retail, maybe, or factory work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Like well-run factories, cells are thrifty; part of the cellular machinery chops up and reuses anything that is floating around inside, including bits of the cell and foreign invaders such as viruses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On her way out, she noticed that one of the gauze doors of the factory had come off its hinges and was propped against the doorway. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk down the yellow hall with the industrial carpet, that factory gray, past the shiny elevators, and through a heavy door to the stairwell. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of African American men and women worked long hours in defense factories throughout the nation to supply the military with arms, provisions, and more. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z When Bert Lewyn, the Jewish teenager forced to work in a Berlin munitions factory, discovered that he was also marked for deportation to a concentration camp, he went into hiding. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When the factory shut down on January 1, Shin decided, with some reluctance, to pay a final visit to his father. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A truck driver for a car factory, he drove brand-new shiny cars to dealerships around the country and could be gone weeks at a time, depending on the schedule. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At Schindler's factory, my father picked up rumors about the war from the gentile workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z And she had tremendous problems of her own, working in the grueling factory by day and visiting my dad at night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The friend explained that a guy he knew, Tom Black, was leaving his job at a soap factory in Jersey City. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told him that I work in the salvage factory,” Max says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Bring two bottles of the drink they brought from the factory.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Shin, on the few days when he did not have to work on the farm or in the factory, had rarely taken advantage of camp rules that allowed him to visit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was an important man in the factory and I had always respected his word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like only dead-end jobs out there for someone like him, working in a gas station or on the assembly line at a nearby tire factory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There was obviously a morale problem in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after her marriage, she was transferred there from a crowded dormitory for women in the camp’s garment factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But they held on to those little yellow cards as though they meant something—laid them gently in the shoe box along with the rent receipts, marriage licenses, and expired factory identification badges. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he ordered factories to produce warplanes, tanks, cruisers, and other weapons and ammunition necessary for a strong military. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The city of Anaheim started to recruit defense contractors, eventually persuading Northrop, Boeing, and North American Aviation to build factories there. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Must we either take part in the crime of factory farms or give up meat? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Park was assigned to the camp’s textile factory in the autumn of 2004. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They intended to use the healthiest Jews as slave labor in their factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The next morning Mrs. Bedlow led Lyddie down the street past all the corporation boardinghouses to the bridge that led to the factory complex. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Her work came first; she was determined to make her father’s factories grow, to do better than he had done. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “All factories,” said Grandpa Joe, “have workers streaming in and out of the gates in the mornings and evenings—except Wonka’s! Have you ever seen a single person going into that place—or coming out?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Besides her factory job, all she cares about is him. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead factory farms clip the beaks off their laying hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Every week the factory assembled a different machine, determined by the volume of orders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Finally de la O’s dad landed a full-time job in a meat-packing factory in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, I just like to go in to the factory and check on things in the morning. And then around noon I drive to Memphis and visit our warehouse.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Along with promises made by the agents of the northern factory owners, thousands of African Americans were influenced in their decision to migrate by the black press. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The sun was rising from wherever it rose, behind the distant factories maybe, or over the blind river. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was the site of a factory building, recently constructed, and none of the workers knew what had become of the family whose house had burned down on that spot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been primed to expect big things after inspecting the bustling Westinghouse, General Electric, and Tennessee Eastman factories turning out equipment for Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The idea of leaving one’s family at home and driving an hour to work at a factory to get paid by the hour struck Generose as a weird quirk of American society. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Eleven of these bars were new inventions from the factory. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they descended out of the America of factory work and tyrannical foremen into an Arcadian grotto of forgetfulness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “We don’t think so. We think they believe we were killed in a factory explosion,” says Twill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Heinck had lived in America for several years, working in various American factories before returning to Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Dutch men mostly avoid them because soldiers prowl our public transportation looking for workers to send to their war-effort factories. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z From the dining-room window where she stood, with the wind in her hair, Rahel could see the rain drum down on the rusted tin roof of what used to be their grandmother’s pickle factory. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "He's going to relocate the factory to a town in Czechoslovakia and take us with him." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z To support her family, Fannie went to work at the garment factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I shot a quick glance about the factory; most of the men were working late. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We always did, each time an employee from one of his factories brought a product sample for us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The grocer’s wife says they’re sent to nylon factories in Russia. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The paternalism that governed relations between white planters and slaves in the Old South was extended in the New South to include poor white factory workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But as the years passed, his walks became longer and longer as the factories and roads sprawled out of town like one of the rashes he was so effective in treating. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z “If you think gum is so disgusting,” said Mike Teavee, “then why do you make it in your factory?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Back in America the government had let some Nikkei out of the camps to go to work, usually in factories. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z You have spent an enormous amount of money retooling your furniture factory, and still more making sure that, say, the mesh on the Aeron doesn’t pinch the behinds of people who sit in it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z From New Jersey to Alaska, reservoirs, bridges, tunnels, factories, and waterfronts were put under guard. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “She told me on the phone that if she wasn’t here to go to the pants factory,” he said, “so I’ll go down there.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There were images of men playing cards, people leaving a factory, each one a still from an early movie. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The sky was impossibly blue, and white industrial smoke rising from factory chimneys was frozen in the sky, like a photograph. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It goes through grassland studded with honey-acacia trees, and it goes past factories, and then it conies to a rotary and enters the bustling street life of Nairobi. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Your father could have used a good man like me at his furniture factory. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Much bigger than the rich fish factory man’s house in the village. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z This was happening just as the old-fashioned sort of lifetime jobs—factory jobs especially—were disappearing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And the auto factory must have been the Solara plant that Parker relocated to Colorado. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Cora remembered Caesar’s words about the men at the factory who were haunted by the plantation, carrying it here despite the miles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He works in a factory in Queens sealing video games in plastic. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year- olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They planned routes in and out of the factory and practiced wrapping explosives around the type of equipment they expected to find inside. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Her brother Carlos went to Cuba and then came back to Jamaica and opened a garment factory. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The factory was in an industrial area outside of Mutare, as big as a football field. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was late morning and Kainene was at one of her factories. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We must hasten back on the wings of prose to the factory and its folk, who prompted my rather lengthy digression. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The river rose so high that some of the factory people had to move out of their houses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z No longer needed to pick cotton in the fields or labor in factories, lower-class black men were hauled off to prison in droves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Northwards, beyond and above the trees, the Internal and External Secretions factory glared with a fierce electric brilliance from every window of its twenty stories. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother had to be at the factory by seven. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z That same year the Nazis threatened to close his factory if he didn't switch from producing enamelware to making armaments. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Crossing a walled river of Stygian sludge, we entered a district of factories and workhouses, of smokestacks belching black stuff into the sky, and this is where we found Wakeling Street. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was out of the stock at Sissy’s factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignatius asked the empty factory while he tried to stuff foot upon foot of film into his pocket. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She must be dealt with on her own level, and thus I thought of her as I surveyed the sub-standard conditions in the factory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited for the train to move again, to take us into that awful factory, but we didn’t move. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite McClellan’s lack of skills or education beyond the twelfth grade, there was good reason to believe that the aluminum factory could get him into middle-class security quicker than a bachelor’s degree could, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Steve was foreman now, at a munitions factory on Morgan Avenue. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were supposed to bomb enemy defenses northeast of Stalingrad, near an important tractor factory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In Durban, Indian workers walked out of factories while in the Cape thousands of Coloured workers stayed home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, factory wages in the Tarheel State vied with Mississippi’s for last place in the nation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If you were a black woman, you worked in a factory or as a maid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A row of factories chugged smoke into the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason for this was that the toothpaste factory, the place where Mr. Bucket worked, suddenly went bust and had to close down. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Her husband, French Wilson, had found a job at the Central Leaf Tobacco factory and had sent for her and the baby, enclosing a one-way bus ticket along with his letter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Farming was no longer an ecological loop—it was more like a factory. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Colin slowed down, pulling to the shoulder so that a speeding SUV could pass him while he looked out at the factory with Lindsey. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I’d take the number 2 subway train from Aunt Mary’s factory and jump off at 125th Street and the adventure would begin. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maya’s room, as opposed to the rest of the house, looked like there had been an explosion at a color factory. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At Brentford the Television Corporation’s factory was like a small town. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z My sister, Dell, reads and reads and never learns to jump rope or play handball against the factory wall on the corner. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The next one had on it: Why has south eastern Alaska so many caning factories? The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In his own dwelling, there were the necessary reference volumes that each household contained: a dictionary, and the thick community volume which contained descriptions of every office, factory, building, and committee. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d explained that it was something people used to eat all the time, until the Government shut down the factories that made it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z When the white men in the factory heard that we had agreed to fight, their excitement knew no bounds. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There will be T-shirts — made in my factories, of course — to show support. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Whenever Dad started to do a new motion study project at a factory, he’d always begin by announcing he wanted to photograph the motions of the laziest man on the job. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The factory hours were long and tiring, and the work was tedious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He worked at a desk in a room piled with cotton cloth at the back of the factory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long after Henrietta’s death, planning began for a HeLa factory—a massive operation that would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The black man in America couldn’t get a decent factory job until Hitler put so much pressure on the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She went on, using as far as possible words Brigid knew from factory life. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “One of my workers just came in saying there was a man flying above the factory.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Died while that woman was doing piece work for a shirtwaist factory. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the factory, Zizmo took him into the Personnel Department. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She enjoyed it, but it ended too soon and was followed by a program about a cake factory. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z This was probably why people were able to empty porta potties or regulate the quality of canned cat food in factories with actual taste tests. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There’s one down by the train station, in an area that used to be nothing but abandoned, burned-out factories and graffiti. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z |
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