Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although many a U. S. steel mill, preparing for armament orders, was in the market for scrap steel, Mussolini's agents managed to place orders for no less than 250,000 tons-the equivalent of about seven months' purchases at the rate of the last two years. Trade authorities agreed this amount was above Italy's normal needs (200,000 tons a year), was obviously headed for her (or Germany's) war chest. Steel men recalled that National Steel Corp.'s Ernest Tener Weir, in behalf of the industry, had two weeks ago demanded that...
...deep-southern mill town a half-mad anarchist, a Negro doctor desperate to free his race, a girl who loves music, and a quiet, watchful cafe owner all come to share a mystical admiration for deaf-mute John Singer. Out of Singer's stunned face and his silence, each of the four constructs an image of absolute understanding, a godlike sounding board for prayerlike confessions. The fact that Singer himself is coolly puzzled by them, is himself even more piteously dependent than they, escapes them. The fact that no one of them can understand the other they scarcely realize...
...steelmen have rolled their flat steel in continuous strip mills for 17 years. So much cheaper is this method that U. S. exporters began taking British business right under the cartel's nose, in spite of the tariff of the Ottawa agreements. So a few years ago ?20,000,000 Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., the No. 1 British iron, sheet and tin-plate producer, decided to modernize. Its chairman, a forthright, anti-banker industrialist named Sir William John Firth, went to Pittsburgh and hired the experts of United Engineering & Foundry Co. to build him a continuous mill. They signed...
...that time, however, the British Government was beginning to take a hand in British industry with a view to its social and military uses. Sir William was asked to locate his mill at Ebbw Vale in South Wales, a derelict steel'district where new jobs were acutely needed. Partly because of the higher cost of building at Ebbw Vale, and partly because of the 1938 recession, Richard Thomas & Co.'s funds ran out two years ago, before the mill was ready. Sir William accepted a ?6,000,000 loan from the Bank of England. In return for this...
...been importing 200,000 tons of steel a month from Belgium and Luxembourg; and last week, with Luxembourg gone and Belgium going, England (and France) began rushing tonnage orders to the U. S. for steel products. If Britain is using precious foreign exchange while disemploying her own most efficient mill in order to protect the cartel's price structure, Herbert Morrison will have something to say to Montagu Norman...