Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel? Engineers of the General Electric Company are designing the largest alternating current motor for steel mill use ever made in the U. S. A. Erected at the River Rouge plant of the Ford company, it will develop 8,000 horsepower with a speed of 240 revolutions per minute. It will drive a "blooming" mill, where installations are now being made for the manufacture of steel. Ultimately, they say, the plant will manufacture all the steel Ford...
Fortunes. Mrs. Ford, Yorkshire woman, mill worker, made $150,000 in a sweepstake. A rich Londoner won $60,000; he gave one-third to charity. A stenographer won $46,000. A Plymouth hotel man drew Papyrus in three sweepstakes and is said to have made nearly a million dollars. There were others...
...Haldeman-Julius unique in his field. The recently organized Kingsport Press, of Kingsport, Tenn., has established there a huge printing plant, with pulp and paper mill attached, to have a capacity of 250,000 copies a day. The Press's first order is an edition of 155,000 copies of the New Testament. After that it will turn to secular authors and produce a series including Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Fenimore Cooper?256 page books, printed on standard paper, bound in cloth covers and sold at a price as low as costs will allow...
...Robson of the London School of Economics gave the principal talk at the Liberal Club's discussion with the three visiting foreign students last night. Robson compared the present day Fabian Society, composed of men like Sidney Watt and Robert Tawney, to the small group headed by John Stuart Mill which changed the whole trend of thought in England after the Napoleonic Wars...
...gods, Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere school-boys to old Aristotle." Aristotle is no less important for the student of political theory, and the philosopher of today had better make sure that his latest discovery has not been anticipated in whole or in part by Plato. John Stuart Mill, whose word should appeal to students of economics as well as philosophy, declares after presenting his ideals of education, that...