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Word: mille (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody had to read far to find out what the announcement meant: "Subsidiaries of United States Steel Corp. have announced today new mill prices . . ." Thus last week did Big Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless give his answer to the $100-a-month pensions won by the C.I.O. Steelworkers only five weeks before (TIME, Nov. 21). Because of higher operating costs, said Fairless, the company was raising the price of steel by an average of 4%, i.e., $4 a ton. Other steelmen scurried to their adding machines to figure out new price schedules themselves. But by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No. 4 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...including more than $400,000 from 25 newspapers, RFC lent him $3,425,000. He had hardly started to make newsprint when the war cut off his supply of chemically made pulp. With additional private loans and another $2,500,000 from RFC, he built his own pulp mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Mister East Texas | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...superb soft shoe dancer. What comes through in this movie is not only his great talent, but his obvious enjoyment in playing his part. This same enjoyment is also found in Lena Horne and Fats Waller, and that is what raises them from the scores of run-of-the-mill actors in the film...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Squatting on its bent axles on Mill street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses is a 1931 Buick Phaeton that is worth its weight in 1950 Cadillacs, according to owner Michael S. Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell's Buick Phaeton Has Its Third Undergraduate Owner | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...Cornell-trained ('13) chemical engineer, John got his first good job at 25, running a brass mill to make shell-casings during World War I. In 1931, when New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. went into receivership, John spotted a chance to supplement the Olin cartridge line by buying one of the world's biggest sporting-firearm plants for $8,000.000. Since he likes to hunt, John has since neatly combined business with pleasure. He holds some 20 basic cartridge patents (e.g., Western Cartridge's "Super X" long-range load for small arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wrapped in Cellophane | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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