Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company of which Col. May is so especially fond has been familiar to him from boyhood. Gulf States Steel is second in the South only to Sloss-Shemeld Steel & Iron Corp.. but last year operated at a loss. Strategically located, it has been sought by American Rolling Mill Co. and the Eaton interests. Steelmen agree that eventually Republic Steel Corp. will acquire...
...group of men he called "new patriots," because they gave up good private jobs for Federal service. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Farm Board was the shining example. But before long the supply of "new patriots" ran out and President Hoover was compelled to pick run-of-the-mill applicants. He created a good impression when he sent Charles Gates Dawes to the Court of St. James's and then spoiled it by a succession of appointments which he himself probably did not regard as much better than average...
...back to the U. S. company which sent it. Last week that U. S. company acted and announced it had bought control of Cuban-American Manganese Corp., allowing the minority interest to remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co. A big mill will be built at once, shipments to the U. S. started. Surprising, however, was revelation of the U. S. firm's identity. It was Freeport Texas Co., second biggest producer of sulphur...
Because he once saw a bum beaten up by a cop Jimmie had joined the I. W. W.; but his enthusiasm waned, he had never been active. Then the War started, wages boomed, the Wobblies started strikes in every mill they could. But it was an unpopular time to strike; soon the Wobblies were made to realize it. Bodies were found of men who had "committed suicide;" homes were wrecked, men beaten up by night-riders. Jimmie did not advertise his I. W. W. membership but it was known. By luck he escaped, but his spirit was broken; when...
...English language paper in the Soviet capital, appear frequent letters from U. S. technicians in Russia, most of a satisfied, some of an exultant tone. Different were tidings which Mechanical Engineer Philip Harty of Newark, N. J. brought last week when he returned with his spouse from a rolling mill job in the Ukraine...