Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beside the long-abandoned Maclntyre iron mine in New York's Adirondack vacationland-of all places-National Lead Co. last week put the finishing touches on a mill that will make the U.S. independent of imports in two critical materials and crack wide open two war-effort bottlenecks: vanadium and titanium...
...start building, it had to spend $480,000 for an 8¼-mile road to the nearest highway, $500,000 more for a 42-mile, 100,000-volt high-tension line. Meanwhile its engineers lived like explorers in tents and ghost-city shanties. Now the huge crushing plant, wet mill and dry mill are almost complete; operations will be full-scale by mid-July. Total cost: $9,000,000-every cent from National Lead's own till...
After two days of run-of-the-mill registration, Memorial Hall officials are prepared to confront somewhere between 500 and 1500 upperclassmen, Summer School students, and graduates as the first batch of the still-unregistered 3000 members of the University arrive today...
Formally opening the first full scale summer session in the College's three centuries, the new Freshmen, several accompanied by their girls, fathers, or mothers, went through the mill with a minimum of difficulties, and survived the gauntlet of salesmen from the Lampoon to the laundry representatives, and finally emerged laden with free copies and blotters...
...Ingot production of 85,000,000 tons this year will mean only 60,000,000 tons of finished steel. WPB launched a drive last week to narrow the gap by requiring, for example, closer figuring on how big a forging is needed to mill out a desired product...