Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marrying the boss's daughter is something of a tradition in American Rolling Mill Co. Armco's founder and chairman, white-haired, patriarchal George Matthew Verity, married his boss's daughter; Armco's president, wiry, little Charles Ruffin Hook, married Leah Verity. And President Hook would probably be delighted if his daughter, Jean Catherine, now in school in Connecticut, wed an up-&-coming Armco man. For good relations with its employes is a prime Armco policy. Last week Armco's happy relations with its workers-attested by the fact that it has had no strike...
...bought was used for 15-and 30-minute dramatic serials spotted in the morning or afternoon to amuse housewives, and to push cereals, headache remedies, tooth paste, floor polish, cosmetics, etc. for 19 sponsors. For many of these spots B-S-H's great, straight-line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum. All these were ghostwritten by some 14 anonymous...
...Hummert mill produces 50 serial scripts a week, a total of some 6,500,000 words a year. In their Greenwich, Conn. home Frank and Anne figure out the trends of their serials four to six weeks in advance, dictate outlines to a battery of stenographers. Outline for an episode (Backstage Wife) may read something like this: "Suspecting that Cynthia Valcourt murdered Candy Dolan with Ward Ellman's gun, after Tess left the fiat, Mary, Larry and Ward rush to Tony Valcourt's penthouse to have a talk with Tony and Cynthia, having sent Tess Morgan...
When a script is finished by the ghost writers it goes to an adjunct of the Hummert mill known as Air Features, Inc. for production. No Hummert ghost may even stick his nose inside Air Features' production studios...
...Steel Corp. bigwigs. Hero of the day was six-foot, grey-thatched William Adolf Irvin, onetime president. The train was named the "Irvin Works Special" and it was chuffing toward Pittsburgh (as were specials from Chicago and Cleveland) for the inauguration of Big Steel's Irvin Works, "finest mill man yet has built...