Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Face. Somervell's Services of Supply did not exist three months ago. It is a product of Franklin Roosevelt's wholesale reorganization of the U.S. Army, which came out of the mill with a different and handsomer face than soldiers had ever seen before. The cumbersome General Staff was pared down; it took 50% of its personnel from the Air Forces. Below the General Staff the old complexity of arms, services and spare parts was bunched into only three agencies: Ground Forces, Air Forces and Services of Supply...
...last week there was new evidence that the Nelson plan deserved much credit. The trade paper Mill & Factory released a "survey with no holds barred" of how it had worked in a random sample of 88 out of the first 300 plants to set up production-drive committees. Despite management's early fears (and the survey was built up exclusively from management reports), 91% of those with concrete opinions reported that labor had not used the drive to encroach on management; 78% said labor had used them "in a sincere effort to increase production"; 62% said they had received...
Jason, the ivory tower aesthete, has married a girl named Lisa. Actually the daughter of a Southern mill-hand, she poses as an aristocrat from Virginia. Into their marriage comes Mike Ambler, a reasonably accurate facsimile of William Saroyan, whose new play is about to open on Broadway. Ambler takes a fancy to Pason, tears down his reserves, and just as the critic is becoming stale, brings out the human qualities in him. But Ambler also falls in love with Lisa. The night of the opening of Mike's play the crisis comes: Lisa prepares to run off with Mike...
...which looks, feels and launders much like any other cotton cloth, but conceals this fundamental difference: it is made without a spindle or a loom. Cotton web oozing softly from the carding machine is treated with an adhesive (still an unpatented secret), fed back into machinery resembling a paper mill, from which it emerges as a low-cost cotton cloth capable of giving other cotton goods some formidable competition...
...Because local steel ingot capacity is insufficient, Youngstown Sheet & Tube is offering to dismantle its Brier Hill (Ohio) plate mill, ship its equipment to any interested bidder. Reported bidders: American Rolling Mill, perhaps for its new Texas operations; Henry J. Kaiser, for his new California plant...