Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first task was to provide workers with security. When times were bad, Crown Zellerbach and the other paper mills developed work-sharing plans that kept employment stable throughout West Coast paper mills; now, with work plentiful, it has cooperated with the workers in setting up health and retirement insurance plans. No coddler of employees, Crown Zellerbach thinks workers should shoulder more responsibility. For example, the average Crown Zellerbach employee works with equipment worth $25,000 (in 1940), and is asked to suggest ways to make it more efficient. At its largest mill the company gets up to 100 suggestions...
...effect, Little blamed the New Englanders for their troubles. Since 1921, he said, no new textile mill has been built in New England and the number of its spindles has been cut more than 75% to 5,000,000. More than a year ago, Little had warned that the plant's output would have to rise but it remained...
...France's Jeannette Vermeersch, who started as a mill hand in Lille, lived for years with Maurice Thorez, eventually married him. She has the reputation of being a hard, intelligent party worker. Rank & filers like her for being a roughhewn, no-nonsense kind of a wife to Thorez (and to Communism), who can talk about the price of butter...
Getting the Eye. Red Curtice was the heir apparent chiefly because of his spectacular job as boss at Buick. An Eaton Rapids (Mich.) boy, Curtice worked as a short-order cook, pushed a fruit cart, clerked in a woolen mill during high-school days. He worked his way through the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, and, after graduation in 1914 as an accountant, became a bookkeeper in G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division at Flint. Next year he became comptroller at 21, the youngest executive in the auto industry. After a hitch in the Army in World...
...Kaiser. Henry Kaiser took over another surplus war plant: the War Assets Administration leased the $22.8 million, 36-building aluminum mill at Newark, Ohio to Kaiser's Permanente Metals for ten years. Terms: 5% of the first year's sales, $125,000 a year minimum for the second, third and fourth years, and $250,000 minimum thereafter...