Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinners, Judge Gary in 1911 substituted the famed "Pittsburgh Plus" system-any steel consumer paid the Pittsburgh base price plus freight from Pittsburgh to his door, even though the steel might come from a mill in an entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of view, this was ideal, for it put all steel mills, no matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that...
Charles R. Hook, president of American Rolling Mill...
...certain indication that the House Plan is a success is the tremendous growth of rivalry between each of the seven red-brick units. This feeling, which some like to associate with the growth of nationalism in continental Europe, has recently taken on amazing proportions, so much so that Mill Street now serves a function very comparable to that of the Rhine River in keeping bitter enemies from one another's throat...
...Charles Whitefield Welch of Louisville, Ky., the Southerner who will head the Northern Presbyterians for the next year, is slight, sandy-haired, 60, and probably the only man who ever combined the two jobs of Presbyterian Moderator and railway brakeman. Once a bobbin boy in a Kentucky mill, he earned money for his education by working on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, still keeps his union card by making two runs a year, in uniform, from Louisville to Bowling Green. Theologically a moderate, Moderator Welch has been pastor of Louisville's Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church since...
When it came to viewing with alarm, the publishers found two infringements of liberty to condemn: the attempt of a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner to get accountings of articles in the St. Mary's (Pa.) Press and a magazine, Mill and Factory; the demands of the "Black Committee," now headed by Senator Sherman Minton, to examine private papers...