Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recovery of copper from rayon mill wastes, and of many metals from mine and industrial wastes...
...peace-loving Quakers, Lukens refused all war orders for more than a century, changed its policy only after the U.S. got into World War I. Then it was too late - the company finished the world's largest rolling mill (206 in. wide; cost $5,000,000) just in time for the Armistice and a terrible slump in steel orders...
...worked up to be Lukens' president six years after he mar ried a Huston girl. As the big boss Wolcott began to: 1) specialize in oversized hot rolled plates, 2) set up fabricating subsidiaries to give Lukens a broader market. Both schemes clicked and the huge 206-in. mill was soon thundering out big plates for merchant ships, machine tools, railroad equipment, etc., the fabricating divisions prospered on special castings, all-welded cylinder blocks...
When war broke out Lukens was a natural-for one thing its big mill could roll plates twice as thick and 40 in. wider than anyone else. So the Navy placed orders for battleship armor up to 9½ in. thick, welded marine-engine blocks and submarine parts; the Army ordered light tank armor, antiaircraft gun bases, other fabricated steel parts. To boost output faster Defense Plant Corp. okayed a $25,000,000 plant expansion (total plant in 1940: $8,385,000). Result: in 1939-42 Lukens almost tripled employment to 6,000, quadrupled sales to $47,000,000, multiplied...
...approved it at least in principle. Even in the Conservative "Times" war dispatches have been shoved back between the ads for Bovril and Player's Navy Cut. His Majesty's Stationery Office is swamped with requests for copies of the complex 300,000 word text Goebbel's propaganda mill has been forced by skillful B.B.C. publicity to ridicule rather than ignore...