Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best customers is Aluminum Co.. of America, whose big mill at Alcoa, Tenn., is loaded with orders for aircraft parts. Alcoa, watching TVA's firm-power sales expand, feared it might be elbowed out of the TVA reserve power on which it relies for peak-season production. (TVA withdrew 30,000 kw. from Aluminum Co. on July 1.) Alcoa welcomed TVA's promise of new capacity, but wanted still more. Proposing to build two hydro stations of its own (90,000 kw.) on the Little Tennessee, Alcoa asked the Federal Power Commission whether it claimed jurisdiction over...
...tape of law threatened to thwart the U. S. will to help. By present immigration statutes, no alien Briton, however young or pathetic, can legally enter the U. S. without going through the slow mill of the quota, nor (by British law) take more than ?10 ($36 last week) out of the United Kingdom...
...Pittsburgh, distressed at overhearing a worker gabbing about production results in a war-geared steel mill. Advertising Executive Robert Post began distributing posters reading: "Sealed lips stop tips. Don't talk to strangers about your work. Silence is golden. Help preserve American industry...
...Dallas' Murray Co., makers of cottonseed oil mill machinery, which has an educational order for 5,000 shell casings, considered ways of preparing for volume production...
Owner of the new mill and of the 5,000-6,000 acres purchased (for around $400,000) is Tennessee Powder Co. Its 1,000 shares of common are owned by the Anglo-French Purchasing Board. This week, while drillers worked on eight artesian wells to furnish 22,000,000 gallons of water a day (equal to Memphis' total daily consumption), engineers swarmed over the ground laying out the sites for more than 100 buildings, widely separated to cut down damage from explosion. Memphis businessmen calculated that when the mill begins operations about Oct. 1 it will employ around...