Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said with a smirk, because no Kentuckian would work in the mill "if it were known that this company was owned by outside people who were Jews...
...small businessman named David Hillstrom, proprietor of the Corry-Jamestown Manufacturing Corp. of Corry, Pa., testified that in the last year he has paid $206,000 above the mill price for sheet steel. And he paid $18,000 more for steel he never got. He is now paying from $250 to $280 a ton for sheet steel (mill price: $50 a ton) to keep his plant going...
...California's businessmen, it often seemed as if Henry J. Kaiser might be the New Deal's own private Paul Bunyan. Back in 1942 when the Defense Plant Corporation turned him down emphatically, the RFC loaned Kaiser $123,305,000 to build his Fontana steel mill. And he was permitted to use his shipbuilding profits (most of which would have gone to the U.S. in taxes anyway) to help pay the RFC loan. In this way he paid off $17 million...
...Kaiser's proposal, New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges cried "unutterable gall." But Kaiser had a case of a sort. The Government, he pointed out, had sold the $200 million Geneva steel mill to U.S. Steel Corp. for 20.9? on the dollar-a loss of $162 million. (The other side of this argument was that Geneva had been auctioned off-and Big Steel got it because no one else wanted to pay the price it offered...
...still wearily debating whether or not the noted nutritionist, Dr. Franklin Bicknell, had been right when he said that Britons were slowly starving. In France, the daily bread ration had been cut from 10.5 ounces to 8.3 ounces, may be cut again, and Premier Ramadier told striking flour mill hands: "Each day without bread is a step nearer disaster." The Communist Humanité headlined: "It is wrong to have believed in American promises...