Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From one of the great open-hearth furnaces poured a molten white stream-steel. The rolling mill clanked out the first structural shapes. A white-clad band struck up the national anthem. The Volta Redonda steel plant (not far from Rio de Janeiro), the most impressive industrial sight in Latin America, was officially in operation. Brazil's dream of industrial self-sufficiency was being realized...
...waves of sulphur rolled out every six hours, as a blast furnace belched. Black smoke poured from the stacks. A 300-ft.-high gas tank (big enough to supply Rio's daily gas consumption ten times over) loomed up by the long sheds that make up the rolling mill...
...nearby hills, a new, shadeless city of 33,000 people spread itself-the Portuguese-style manor house of Engineer Soares, the well-equipped homes of the 45 U.S. technicians who directed the mill's construction, 2,800 two-family workers' cottages, complete with wooden floors and bathrooms...
Fifteen hundred men whom Dean Donald K. David characterized yesterday as "an extraordinary group representing a wide geographical range," are expected to file through the Business School registration mill starting today. The figure represents a 50 percent increase over summer enrollment, and it brings the proportion of veterans in the student body to slightly over nine...
...national strike committee quickly approved the terms, recommended that striking locals do so too. If they did, said a strike official hopefully, the men would go back to work just as fast as the mills could be restarted. Mill owners had still to accept the terms. But the Government's offer was made in such a way that they would be hard put to it to turn it down. If they accepted, the strikers had won a notable victory...