Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producing a lot less copper this year than it could if the copper mines could keep their miners from drifting off to greener pastures: higher-pay West coast shipyards and factories. Don Nelson and the C.I.O. Mine, Mill & Smelters Union are agreed: high pay in war plants* is playing hob with mining, just as it is playing hob with West Coast lumbering (TIME, June...
There are plenty of reasons for the scrap shortage. U.S. steel mills chewed up more scrap in six months of 1942 than in all of 1917-three times as much as in all of 1932. And just when the demand for scrap is zooming to record heights, some of the most important peacetime sources are supplying less than they normally do and, in many cases, what they are supplying is lower-grade scrap. For example, the railroads (usually good for 4,250,000 tons of scrap a year) are finding it next to impossible to get new equipment, so they...
...departure from the usual run of the mill intramural meets medals and prizes were given out last week to the following men for their showing: Jack and Bill Fisher and Hampton in the hammer, Capole and Schneider in the high jump, Garland and Chilcott in the discus, Shaw and Burrowes in the pole vault, Bingham, Wheeler and Clark in the 300, MacCoubrey and Young in the 100, Blatt in the 600, and Andrews and Murch in the distance...
...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
Something far from the usual run-of-the-mill travelogue movies is in store for the audience at the two South American movies scheduled for this afternoon and evening at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, the Summer School office announced...