Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' Creature. The 62-day-long Lawrence strike made Fred Beal a radical for life. He drifted from mill to mill, became a labor organizer, helped lead the big textile strike in New Bedford, Mass., was jailed briefly. Then he joined the Communist Party...
Crammed with white-suited politicos, the six-car caravan headed west from Havana along the broad Central Highway. At town after sugar-mill town, Liberal party leaders had turned out crowds to wave at Presidential Candidate Ricardo Núñez Portuondo. By the time he made his speech of the day, at Pinar del Rio, it was 1 a.m. "People are sick and tired of four years of Grauism," he thundered. The guayabera-clothed farmers had stayed to cheer. "Fuera-out with them," they yelled...
...town's mining future. Workers were flocking back. A citizens' group which had started a housing project was expanding it; others were plugging a new $2,000,000 hospital and recreation center. The first $100 housing contribution came from Local No. 1, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Said Union President Oscar Hill, whose local had fought many a bitter fight against Anaconda: "The future of Butte and the security of its working people is established...
...about the steel grey market. J. & L. filed suits against two steel brokers (it asked $100,000 damages). The charge: the brokers said they had an "in" with J. & L. and could get 7,500 tons a month for the Ford Motor Co. at $75 a ton (the mill price was then $36). In Brooklyn, a federal grand jury indicted roly-polyIsadore Ginsberg, 52, and his son Maurice. (Ginsberg was scored as a "vicious grey marketeer" by a congressional committee probing the grey market in building materials, TIME, Jan. 26). The charge: using the mails to defraud 31 contractors...
Dumaine went to work for Coolidge at 14 as a $4-a-week office boy, and became his protégé. Sent to Amoskeag to work in the mill, Dumaine became boss, ran it for 30 years. When the mill, short of cash, collapsed in the depression, Dumaine was raked over at a congressional hearing for the way he had run the company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting...