Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture shop has made hundreds of night sticks for the California State Guard; the jute mill makes sacking for sandbags, the machine shop repairs Navy valves...
Among all the labor bigwigs who attended the C.I.O. convention this month in Boston, no man had more unpleasant news on his mind than Left Wing Communist-inclined Reid Robinson, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Coming up to Boston for a love feast with Phil Murray and the boys he ended up taking a trip across the continent in a U.S. Army bomber trying to quell mutiny among his own miners...
Cause of the hurried trip was the flat refusal of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1 at Butte, Mont, to allow Negro workers down the shafts of Anaconda Copper. This was in grim defiance of C.I.O.'s strong pro-Negro policies. It was also in defiance of the U.S. Army, and of an Administration patently striving to promote amicable Negro-white relations among the labor forces of this country...
Standard's improvisation of techniques, plus its pooling idea, is acknowledged by the War Department as one of the outstanding production jobs done during the war. Biggest shadow over the operation now is the semicompleted armor-plate mill which lumbering Carnegie-Illinois is putting up in the Chicago area. Desperate for equipment, Carnegie is casting envious eyes at machinery now used by the Stand ard pool. Question now before WPB is whether the pool has not made the new Carnegie plant superfluous...
...engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship. Things went well until after World War I, when shipbuilding collapsed. The thing that "saved the bacon," says Charlie, was the machine division, which promptly turned to heavy items like industrial cranes, dredges, cement and paper-mill machinery...