Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor," observed Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s President Eugene Grace as he opened a new $20,000,000 strip & sheet mill at Lackawanna, N. Y. last week, "is paramount in all our minds today...
...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
...International Typographical Union; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; International Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers; International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers...
...baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley, made away with a three-foot rope of matched pearls worth $300,000, a diamond...
...Corp.'s Chairman Ernest Tener Weir is strong for hardboiled, hard-driving executives who, like himself, got their higher education at an open-hearth furnace, not in a classroom. Long has he had his eye on Thomas E. Millsop, who was holding down a job in a steel mill at 15. Last week Mr. Weir upped redhaired, jut-jawed...