Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model for Laggards. In some cases great improvement has resulted from a change of methods, without any new machines. A textile mill in Bolton rearranged the machines in its cardroom, set workers to acquiring high skill at one job instead of puttering at several. Production per man-hour went up 39%, cost went down 10% a pound, and workers had more free time (for tea, etc.) on the job. Yet in the textile industry as a whole the man-hour output remains abysmally...
...asked Congress to extend for another six months his emergency power to imprison individuals without trial. By a well-timed coincidence, Gonzalez' police has just arrested 21 Communist labor leaders in Concepcion, and seized documents purportedly proving that the 21 were cooking up ways to sabotage a steel mill, copper, coal and nitrate mines...
...Salem, Mass., some people named Hale, cousins of Author John P. Marquand, identified themselves as the characters in Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when...
Elliott Roosevelt was stuck with his fourth speeding fine in three years, his second in 1948: a $10 item for zipping along the Saw Mill River Parkway (New York) at 52 m.p.h...
...Capehart said that the Supreme Court's decision in the cement case had thrown all of industry into confusion on prices. He thought the "only pricing practice which may be followed in any competitive industry where freight is a substantial item . . . with assurance of legality is an f.o.b. mill price. Any other pricing system may be found illegal...