Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steelmen have eyed Detroit with pleasure in the past two months, they have also eyed it with alarm. There H. M. Naugle and A. J. Townsend have a plant abuilding. Messrs. Naugle & Townsend once revolutionized a good section of the industry with their continuous sheet steel rolling mill-only new steelmaking process adopted by the industry in the past 41 years. And steelmen knew that what they had done once they might do again. The new Naugle-Townsend plant is to test the commercial possibilities of casting steel by the rotary method. Chief advantages...
...Province, Dictator Machado's strong-arm man Major Arsenio Ortiz last week stamped furiously. Than catching and trying nimble rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara front...
Suddenly last week Machado called Ortiz back to Havana again. This time he was asked to answer formal military charges of murdering the three mill guards. Under technical arrest. Ortiz retired to his home outside Havana, hard by Dictator Machado's country place...
...President Roosevelt last fortnight declared by radio that 90% of the cotton textile industry was good-hearted at bottom, he was only indulging in squirely politeness. Last week the directors of Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc. plumped for a 40-hr, work week and an 80-hr. weekly limitation on mill operations. But George A. Sloan, the Institute's able young head, was able to muster only ten of the industry's 30 million spindles for the Institute's plan.* He announced that when he had mustered 20 million spindles he would ask Mr. Roosevelt...
...successive week exceeded last year's figures, and May was expected to be the best month in nearly two years. Steel output crossed the line at 33% of capacity, was expected to soar to 40% this week. Carloadings, biggest barometer of the movement of goods from mine to mill, from factory to store, jumped 43,000 to 535,000. considerably more than the usual seasonal gain.* Only major index still below the line was electric power production, but a heavy gain was predicted for this week. The gains were not all in the basic industries. Retailers described their trade...