Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons of ore, which will add around 10,000,000 tons to the pig supply; another 10,000,000 tons of pig will come from other U.S. iron deposits. But at least 3,000,000 tons (on a pig-iron basis) must be stored up to carry steel mills through the next big freeze. That means not much more than 50,000,000 tons of pig for this year on a net basis. Added to this, 1943 's 41,500,000-ton scrap goal (half from mill waste, half purchased) is just barely enough to turn out the hoped...
...study of the pub and of its place in the life of Britain was recently published in London. The Pub and the People was the work of an organization called Mass-Observation, which for three years scrutinized the Lancashire cotton-mill town of Bolton. Sample observation: A man aged 66 wrote: "Why I drink Beer, because it is food, drink, and medicine to me, my Bowels work regular as clockwork, and I think that is the Key to health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles...
...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...
Sordid Side. As witnesses the Committee called steel foremen, metallurgists and plain mill hands. Their evidence: 1) most of the chiseling was in the tests of the chemical content and tensile strength of the steel plates; 2) false entries on the test sheets were a "common practice." Big point in the investigation: Did faulty Carnegie-Illinois steel cause the Kaiser-built tanker Schenectady to break in half? The answer: yes & no. The American Bureau of Shipping report chiefly blamed poor welding ("There was neglect [in] adhering rigidly to established welding procedures . . . there were insufficient numbers of trained, experienced welders...
...Human Comedy (M.G.M.) is a faithful translation of William Saroyan's novel (TIME, March 1); hence it is like no other picture that ever came out of Hollywood. Such things as plot worry Saroyan not at all. People are the grist for his mill, and the Macauleys of Ithaca, Calif, are good grist. Saroyanesquely naive one moment, they are profound the next; now smug and annoying, now simple and lovable. Definitely, they are human beings, and fortunately the story of their day-today, small-town lives is told with few of the irrelevancies that Saroyan usually contrives. There...