Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Were Dead." Wilson's eye from now on will be mostly upon the amazing steel mill that sprang like a jack rabbit from the East Texas piney woods. Built by the Government during World War II to produce pig iron. Lone Star had yet to pour any metal when V-J day arrived. Soon after the war, the unpromising one-furnace mill was sold for $7,500,000 to an optimistic group of Texas businessmen. To run it, they chose Germany, a onetime schoolteacher and salt packer who had grown wealthy as an oilfield wildcatter. Borrowing from the Reconstruction...
...quest of relaxation? . . . Occasionally the sought-after glamor in the form of white tie, tails, ballroom scenes and pretty dolls will show up on a Garry Moore show or a Perry Como episode, but, by and large, whether it's new public affairs or the run-of-the-mill Hollywood vidfilm product that's hellbent for realism, TV today, for the man in work clothes and business suit, is simply an extension of what he sees, hears and participates in all day long...
...years ago, when he struck the MiVida uranium deposit on the Colorado Plateau, slim, haggard Geologist Charles A. Steen was so broke that he couldn't afford to buy milk for his children. Last week Steen agreed to sell MiVida and itc mill to New York's Atlas Corp. for $12.8 million. Steen sold for capital gains "because it was the only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry...
...barley that he hopes to grow in the Mindanao highlands, and okayed production schedules for a new instant-coffee plant near Manila. That done, he got set to fly to New York to complete negotiations with International Paper Co. for construction of a jointly owned wood pulp and paper mill-the first in the Philippines...
...Wall Streeters even suggest that the next peak may mark the end of the Great Bull Market-which has persisted for 15 years despite temporary setbacks. Not even the pessimists, however, predict a selling panic; what they gloomily expect is month after tedious month during which stock prices mill around endlessly in the trading range-never crashing into the cellar, but never making new highs...