Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tennessee's freshman Congressman Jim McCord, of Lewisburg, learned at first hand some of the tragedies of small business. A Rotarian took him to his Shelbyville hosiery mill, which he now called his "graveyard." Of 54 knitting machines, only five were working, and those on odds & ends. Said the millowner: OPA would allow him only 30 days' supply of raw materials, he could not get labor, his business was going to pot, he had spent the whole morning poring over a new OPA ruling on rayon hosiery and its meaning was still not clear. Jim McCord, a good...
...faculty has its orders, to take it easy on the poor lads. This mill goes on for weeks; every Friday the plunger squirts a package of little demons into 950 unsuspecting arms. And then guys start to faint, and instructors make with mercy...
General Somervell wrote flatly last week in Mill & Factory, trade paper for production men: "By far the greater part of the failure (in May) was due to the psychological letdown-the overconfidence that has swept the country with favorable news from the battlefront." Some Army men suggested that industry was getting so confident that the war had been won that it was giving its energy to preparations for postwar production...
Registration for the freshman course has already begun. The instructors have not yet been announced, since Captain William R. Magruder and Lieutenant Mill Sci I, are not available for teaching. Men who complete the course should expect no reductions in basic training if inducted in to the army, but the training they receive will be bargaining point in their favor in selection for O.C.S...
Thursday afternoon saw the V-12 men march up from Eliot and Kirisland to go through the mill, with almost 700 completing the process then and few stragglers filing through Friday morning. The long tables will be taken down after this morning's 9-12 session...