Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel properties in the U. S. The company was by all odds the biggest family-owned steel business in the land. The money-$30,000,000-was for expansion, not refunding. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. was ready to build in its Pittsburgh works a new continuous strip-sheet mill, which is an exceedingly expensive chunk of machinery...
...other heavy steel products, such as pipes, mer chant bars and structural shapes. Though J. & L.'s plants are the envy of the industry, this preponderance of heavy products, which slumped worst in Depression, was what inspired last week's bond issues. A big modern strip-sheet mill will help balance its output...
...chairman is Horace Edward Lewis, an up-from-the-mill steelman, who was born in Wales 53 years ago. For 24 years he was with Bethlehem Steel, rising to executive vice president. Then, reputedly because Bethlehem was not big enough for both Eugene Grace and himself, he went to Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., big Columbus, Ohio machinery maker. Harddriving, dynamic, he is a smart salesman as well as an able operating executive...
...Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman, J. & L. lost a little money last year on total sales of $62,000,000. With total assets of $184,900,000 and 20,000 employes, J. & L. is geared, like all steel companies, for boomtime production. And with its new strip-sheet mill and the steel team of Lewis & Hackett to sell its output, Jones & Laughlin is ready for whatever boom may develop...
...fail to be captivated by the charm, simplicity, and haunting loveliness of "Poil de Carotte," current attraction at the Fine Arts. Throughout this intensely arresting film one is aware of an earnest sincerity and gripping reality which afford a pleasing diversion from the superficial grist of the Hollywood mill. Rarely does a picture of this sort, dealing as it does with an acute psychological problem, meet with success from the several standpoints of characterization, sustained interest, and insight into the foibles of human behavior...