Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sheet less than standard size; 2) at least 30% of the approved sheet became scrap when parts were cut out of it at an aircraft factory. Then as much as nine months (plus hundreds of scarce freight cars) are needed to get the scrap back to an aluminum mill, remelted, rerolled and ready to be cut up again...
...sized reject sheets by fitting them around the blemishes as a careful dressmaker fits a pattern to precious fabric. He also saw how to eliminate most of the usual waste and delay on scrap aluminum: his parts factory would be right next door to his ingot mill, where the scrap could be remelted and poured right back into more production...
...full employment and full industrial activity -there must be investment, much of it probably abroad. For U.S. industry, now built up to fight for more than just the U.S., is also built up to serve in peace time much more than the U.S. alone. Detroit (cars), Cleveland (tools), Milwaukee (mill parts), Los Angeles (planes) and many others are industrial cities geared to supply the world. They are world cities in terms of needed materials, as well. The appetite of advanced industry for special metals, special fibers, special chemicals to serve the home market alone may even shift the balance...
...most of the J.A.s need some big-time help with their wartime problems. They are due to get it soon: last month J.A.'s President Charles R. Hook of American Rolling Mill Co., its chairman, S. Bayard Colgate of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, and a long list of other heavyweights put the pressure on an even longer list of manufacturers for some subcontracts for the J.A.s. By last week 85% of the Manufacturers had turned the matter over to their production chiefs for "immediate consideration...
...most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date...