Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problem was how to get the new tonnage. Ben Fairless was put in charge of a committee of seven steelmen to figure this out, report back to 0PM this week. Cheapest, fastest and likeliest method: to add to existing mills, rather than build new ones. Two mills expected to grow much bigger are Bethlehem's 3,200,000-ton Sparrows Point mill near Baltimore and U.S. Steel's Columbia subsidiary in California, both on tidewater. Gano Dunn had figured week before that a 10,000,000-ton "horizontal" expansion would cost $1,250,000,000 and probably require...
Meanwhile 0PM attacked the steel-plate problem from another front. Its steel expert, W. A. Hauck, set off last week on a junket to big-time sheet and strip mills to study whether they might be converted to plate production. Present annual plate capacity is some 6,500,000 tons; it was hoped that 1,500,000 tons could be added to this by conversion right away. One example was announced last week: smart Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel (see p. 74) is rearranging its Great Lakes subsidiary (hot-rolled strip and sheets) to provide 300,000 tons...
...members (veterans of both World Wars) and Vichy police have comprised an informal French Gestapo to spy and inform upon anti-Vichy tendencies. Vichy's drive to put Jewish businesses under non-Jewish supervisors continued, with more than 265 enterprises added to the list, including a Normandy textile mill and dyeing plant owned by French-Jewish Novelist Andre Maurois...
...mournful, melodious Mozart Requiem, the lusty John Gay-Christopher Pepusch Beggar's Opera, many another choice piece of music were heard last week in a Southern cotton-mill town. Rarely are such works performed in big cities. Spartanburg, S.C. (population: 32,500) is one of the smallest U.S. cities to support an annual music festival. Thanks to the present boss of the music-jawsome, 43-year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century...
...great glee at having cracked the network front, ASCAP gave out that other networks could expect no better terms than Mutual's. B.M.I., the big chains' music mill, announced 33⅓% price reductions. Enthusiastic was ASCAP about the backlog of new red-white-blue tunes its composers have cooked up since January and will now spring on the patriotic radio public...