Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over Popguns. To the trade a "popgun" mill is a tiny sawmill largely supplied, and often run, by farmers and small-towners in their spare time. There are, according to the U.S. Forest Service, some 32,000 of these popgun mills in the U.S. but only a fraction of them now produce any lumber to speak of. For they are too small to be assured of any market in the midst of huge orders centrally placed, or to be able to cope with Federal regulations limiting prices, shipments...
...Everybody said it takes two weeks to train a new loom tender to tie a weaver's knot. Dooley and Dietz did not believe it. They went to a New England mill loaded with war orders and hard-pressed to find workers. The manager sent for the best loom-tender in the plant. He showed the visitors, with lightning movements of his hands, how a good man does it. Gradually they slowed him down to a speed the eye could follow, made him analyze what each finger does. Hours later they knew exactly what happens when the fingers...
...afternoon the whole building is in use, and by students. Starting at the bottom like an Alger here, the crevices between the pipes in the basement see service as a shooting gallery for the Mill Sci pistol team...
...turned down because of physical disabilities which the Army had passed but which would not stand up in the face of stiff health requirements of the Utah mines. But to Butte were assigned 30-odd physically healthy furloughed Negro soldiers who had only to meet the requirements of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1-so old it is known as the "mother local"-headed by an oldtime, plain-spoken Irish miner, Jim Byrne...
...transport operators. In two rate decisions it bypassed the old contract-type flat payment per mile flown, irrespective of the amount of mail carried, and substituted a pound-mile rate payment. The new policy affects Eastern Air Lines and American Airlines: in both cases the carriers will receive .3 mill for each mile a pound of mail is flown...