Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where he was born. A skin disease pocked his face. His body was small, his complexion an unlovely red. His father was a farmer, none too well off, and Claude went to work when he was a boy. He taught grammar and high school, worked in a steel mill, rolled coal and ashes in a power plant to buy food during his first half-year at the State University. Then he got a job running a dining hall, thankfully gave up manual labor for life. But he still worked hard, made the track team and graduated with honors, went...
...Admiral William Rea Furlong, who told the same Senate sub-committee that the shipbuilding program had been seriously held up ("progress has stopped on the procurement of materials that go into the ships"). Two of his examples: U. S. Steel Corp. had postponed construction of a $4,000,000 mill to make Navy steel; subcontractors refused to make 144 anti-aircraft guns (for 28 new destroyers). Reason: "There is much more business in the country than they can take on without being subjected to [profit] provisions...
Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va. Only the week before the Army had signed a $25,000,000 contract with Hercules to put up the plant and operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated...
...Signed by Hercules Powder Co. was a $25,000,000 contract for a new powder mill, the second of thirty-three prospective plants...
...chemical (sulfite and sulfate) pulp which the U. S. imported from the northern countries last year were only a quarter of U. S. domestic production, they played a disproportionately large part in fixing pulp's market price, because most domestic pulp is used by the same integrated paper mills that make it, never goes to market at all. Some integrated U. S. companies with pulp to spare made money from the price rise, many a small paper mill got stuck...