Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger...
...Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared to $20.34 in the East. Living costs in the East were found to be only 5.8% higher than the South, while average weekly earnings ranged from 15.7% higher in the printing industry to 45.3% higher in the gas industry...
...vice president of Burrus Mill & Elevator Co., Mr. O'Daniel used to plug sales of "Light Crust Flour" with a "hillbilly band" over a Texas network. A persuasive announcer and able musician, Salesman O'Daniel popularized not only his company's flour but songs of his own, Beautiful Texas and Sons of the Alamo. Four years ago he formed his own Hillbilly Flour Co., made a half-million dollars, got elected president of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He and his hillbillies stayed...
Rayonier is an outgrowth of Rainier Pulp & Paper Co., founded in 1926 by Edward Morgan Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged...
More than a year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more...