The town, which once had a thriving sea-fishing industry, last troubled the business pages three years ago when Unilever, a food company, announced that it was closing its fish-finger factory there.
The work was smelly and dangerous – Moody lost the tip of his index finger to a factory saw – but the pay was a major upgrade on the Marshall Islands.
Here was someone pitched forth from poverty's maelstrom, who had forfeited a finger to a factory accident and now spoke eloquently of class struggle.
Lula, who once shined shoes in São Paulo and lost a finger in a factory accident, is the first Brazilian president to be drawn from the mass of ordinary voters who elected him.
On at least two counts, Brazilian history offers no precedent for the rise to power of Mr. da Silva, who has only a grade school education, lost part of a finger in a factory accident and, as he recalled in his address, sold peanuts on the streets as a child to help his divorced mother make ends meet.
Mr. Kelmenson's advertising firm produced a series of ads in the 1980s featuring the likeable Mr. Iacocca, his aviator glasses set firm on the bridge of an indomitable nose, walking the factory floor, finger-wagging and challenging Americans with plainspoken lines like, "If you can find a better car, buy it".
The tips of his fingers were severed in a steel factory, and while using thimbles (artificial finger tips) he found that standard guitar strings were too difficult to bend and play.
The US firm was founded by the entrepreneur Charles Walgreen, who became a pharmacist after cutting the top off his middle finger working in a shoe factory.
The closing of the Evergreen factory has prompted finger-pointing in Massachusetts.
The lowly paid "fairy fingers" of the Lejaby underwear factory in Yssingeaux waged war against plans to shut their factory and outsource to Tunisia their intricate job of stitching straps, cups and hooks for famous French lace bras.
Those staggering sums, he argues, help explain the emergence of a flurry of new technologies and companies hoping to help the drugs industry "secure its global supply chain".In July Oracle, an American software giant, unveiled Pedigree, a programme that helps drugs firms "track and trace" pills all the way from the factory to your fingers.
