Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondence was from women. Typical protests: "We don't want Hitlerism in this country. Has everybody in Washington gone hysterical?" "Just think how many young boys' careers will be ruined. This means a year out of their lives." Socialite Mrs. Richard Newton, of Water Mill, L. I., informed the Senator that conscription was camouflage to conceal the Third Term issue. Dr. C. F. Aked (D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.), of Los Angeles, telegraphed: "I thank God for your noble fight against . . death dealing systems of continental Europe where conscription means both syphilis and slavery." Banker John M. Johnston...
About five years ago Sir William Firth, handsome kinetic chairman of Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., ?23,000,000 British steel firm, decided that Britain should have at least one modern continuous strip rolling mill, U. S. type. He got his mill (at Ebbw Vale, South Wales), but in financing it he lost control of Richard Thomas & Co. First his own bank, Lloyds, refused a loan, called in an overdraft, nearly strangled Thomas & Co. with a working-capital shortage. The Bank of England agreed to make the loan, but extracted an issue of prior-rights stock and put some...
Next, Britons heard an ugly rumor (still unconfirmed because of defense regulations) that the Ebbw Vale mill, most efficient sheet mill in the British Isles, was lying one-third idle because the Steel Control Committee, a semi-official front for the Iron & Steel Federation, was giving preference in Government orders to cartel-owned mills...
Cracking records is nothing new to Ab Jenkins. Son of a Welsh master mechanic who went to the U. S. to supervise the construction of a Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back...
...ingots a year, has about half the world's steelmaking capacity. No foreseeable peacetime boom is likely to strain it. But for purposes of war, U. S. steel capacity is mostly of the wrong kind. Of its enormous furnace power, 90% is open-hearth, for run-of-the-mill steel. Only 2% is in electric furnaces, which are hotter, can be more precisely controlled, turn out steel ingots of the finest grade. Many an aircraft part, the guts of internal combustion engines, light armor plate for tanks, tools for Defense industry must (or should) be rolled from electric-furnace...