Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balding Sol Kittay, 52, a British immigrant who rose from a $12-a-week office-boy's job to become a successful salesman casting around for a firm of his own. In 1945, with savings and a borrowed $100,000, he bought a rundown Ohio textile mill, put it back in the black, started expanding. Within six years, he was big enough to buy B.V.D...
...years later in 1952. It is a striking portrait in its own right, but the drama is in the subtle conflicts between toughness and tenderness, courage and decay, and in the years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength of the land," yet, in this silent scene, a feeling of conflict is still there as the earth struggles to wrench itself from the cold clutch of winter...
...once barren valley nestled among the green hills of Wales, Queen Elizabeth II last week pushed a button and put to work Britain's newest steel mill-the Spencer plant of the government-owned Richard Thomas & Baldwins company. The new plant is designed to produce high-quality steel by means of the fast-spreading LD oxygen process (see below). And it has one other remarkable attribute: it almost runs by computer. From receipt of customers' orders to the final finishing of bars, its operations will be scheduled and supervised by a unique corps of machinery designed by Britain...
...oxygen furnaces at the Richard Thomas & Baldwins mill are the newest weapon that steelmen around the world are wielding to compete with cement, aluminum and plastics. Pure oxygen, when blown into steel crucibles, enables them to make steel faster and cheaper than ever before. Last August, boldly investing in the future despite poor current business, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that it will build two iso-ton "basic oxygen" furnaces at its Duquesne works. Last month. National Steel Corp. opened two 300-tonners at its Great Lakes works. In all, LD fur naces are now pouring steel in 17 nations from...
...Fortunately, Actor Courtenay is excellent (TIME, Sept. 14). As he plays the hero, his chest is phthisical, his voice is a noise among incessant city noises, his face is as hard and blank as city pavement, his eyes are as dark and empty as broken windows in an abandoned mill...