Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sick Child. Bell made a persuasive case for Bokaro-but the plan remains a difficult pill for Capitol Hill to swallow. Of India's three existing government steel mills, one was built by Great Britain, one by the Soviet Union, and one by West Germany. At all three, construction costs far outran estimates. At the Soviet mill, production costs have been higher than in the private plants. And the West German mill was, until recently, so plagued by mechanical difficulties and labor troubles that it was dubbed "the sick child" of Indian industry. It was with this record...
Dangerous Cracks. Republic Steel ensures that its seamless pipes are right before they leave the mill by using an electromagnetic testing machine that watches for breaks as the pipes rush by at assembly-line speed and determines whether they can be repaired. With such nonmagnetic metals as zirconium and tungsten, testers use penetrating oils to test products that are unresponsive to electromagnetic devices. Mixed with dyes that show up under ultraviolet light, the oils quickly reveal dangerous cracks in such important products as nuclear reactor components and power stations...
...until 1975, but Khrushchev's COMECON plans would condemn Rumania to mostly farming and supplying raw materials to others. Result: Rumania insists on the "right of every nation to develop and plan its economy in accordance with its own national interests." When Russia dallied in delivering a steel mill that the Rumanians had ordered (against COMECON plans), the Rumanians huffed off to buy it from an Anglo-French consortium for $39 million. They have also sent a trade mission to the West to drum up more business with the capitalists...
...Winthrop House the girls started several prepared chants, including "We don't want your sockies, we just want your Jockies." Head appeared at windows in Winthrop, Ellot and Kirkland, and gradually the crowd began to grow. It marched down Mill St., toward Dunster, up Plympton St., and took another turn through the House area...
Still lacking a cause behind which all could unite, the crowd was halted for several minutes by University police at the corner of Mill and Plympton Sts., and then again at De Wolfe St. and Memorial Drive...