Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precise Man. With the same agility and shrewdness he had handled the Case bill, which he insisted on settling before the emergency bill went through the mill. The Case bill was permanent legislation, not designed to punish labor but to keep labor within bounds. Taft had prepared himself to follow that line. He knew exactly what he wanted to do; he was not swayed by emotion. With his colleague Joe Ball he hammered out the bill he wanted-by no means a perfect bill, but a reasonable one which Harry Truman might find it hard to veto...
...because it taught slowly, and tried to teach character and not job skills, it "clearly and necessarily had to be a school for rich boys."* Diman wanted to do something for working-class boys. In 1912, the Diman Vocational School opened its doors in Fall River, Mass., the big mill town where Diman's father had been a minister. Backed by Unionist John Golden, the school trained boys of 14 to 16 (too old for grammar school, too young for the mills) in manual trades. Today Diman Vocational is part of the Fall River public-school system...
...over a hundred years it has been customary for each textile mill to specialize in a single process only. One mill would spin, another weave, etc. But when Little established Textron's parent company (Special Yarns Corp.) on $10,000 capital in 1923, he had different ideas. He believed that in textile making all stages of manufacture, from yarn to consumer, should be under one management...
...Bell's Mill, four miles west of Gainesville, Ga., a car sped out of the black night and thudded sickeningly into the bridge. Four were killed. In Manhattan, a coupe skidded wildly across rainswept Third Avenue and bashed into a steel El pillar. Two were killed...
...started off for a solitary ramble. Traveling eastward, found a beautiful road through the woods . . . was gone all the p.m. Conceived a great work to immortalize me to all posterity . . . 'Confessions of an Egotist.' . . . Went off to walk with Freshman Thompson in the p.m. Visited a cider-mill [and] got some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded by students apparently not very anxious...