Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill is really something to keep up with...
Local Reaction. The shutdown choked off the vast weight that the steel industry pours daily into the U.S. economy: 250,000 tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude of trying to run a saloon on the south side of the Monongahela River, the elder McDonald finally went into the Jones & Laughlin rolling mill as a guide setter. One day in 1915 a piece of hot steel sliding through the rollers sheared off accidentally. A hot, jagged end whipped through his left leg, put him in bed for ten months. When he walked again it was with a bad limp. In healing, the injured...
David was burning with enterprise when he left Holy Cross in 1918 and got his first job as a clerk in the Jones & Laughlin polishing mill. The work paid 22? an hour; he soon found another job where the hourly rate was 36?. When an opportunity arose to become a machinist's helper at the mill, he took it. Then in 1922 he returned to white-collar work as typist-switchboard operator at $80 a month for Wheeling Steel Products Co. Three nights a week, for three hours a night, he went to Duquesne University to study accounting...
...however, seemed very worried. It was summer, and the prospect of a two or three week walkout from 'the mill heat during July held few terrors for most steel workers. The industry was also heading into the midsummer slack; steel production, currently scheduled at 95.7% of capacity, would probably drop to 80% before the expected snapback late in the third quarter...