Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassing task for Washington last week was an apology to Castro. After a Florida-based Piper Comanche crashed on a bombing run over a central Cuban sugar mill, killing the two U.S. mercenaries aboard, Secretary Herter sent his "sincere regrets that the plane managed to escape the vigilance of our intensified airfield patrols." President Eisenhower gave the FBI authority for on-the-spot seizure of any suspicious arms caches that might be bound for the Caribbean. Castro used pieces of the plane as props in an irate TV speech, but did not charge that U.S. authorities knew about or consented...
...Lott, he promptly made foreign capital his prime target. Said he in a small, high-pitched voice: "We no longer desire that the sweat of Brazilian workers serve to build riches for those abroad." At his second rally of the day, he called for improvement of the government steel mill, Volta Redonda, and "more guarantees for untouchable Petrobras," the state oil monopoly...
...Woolworth stores, eventually became a tool buyer for the Hudson Bay Co. department store. When he was appearing in an amateur production of Naughty Marietta, the Toronto Conservatory heard of him, gave him a three-year scholarship. But Vickers, who had a horror of becoming "another run-of-the-mill radio singer," decided after eight years that he would go back into business. "The press always said, Mr. Vickers gave his usual fine performance,' and I knew I was on the way down...
COPPER-STRIKE pact was agreed upon by Anaconda Co. and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, ending a 177-day walkout. Anaconda's settlement all but ended the strike, which shut down 80% of the industry. The three-year contract provides 4,785 Anaconda workers with hourly wage boosts from...
With both its menfolks' and its womenfolks' jobs in the balance, Morgnano's Communist mayor appealed to Rome for relief to both mine and mill. The mill was obsolete and the mine uneconomic, but the pressure worked. The mill agreed to reduce the layoffs to 255 and spread these ottt-ever eleven months. The mine (run by a government-owned corporation) promised to avoid any actual firings, transfer men to other jobs as available...