Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could make aluminum production pay. Last week the company was running in the black, and Bridgeport's elephant was getting rosier all the time. The company plans to buy the plant from the Air Force when its lease runs out in 1958, is thinking of adding a rolling mill and will nearly treble the number of its employees as it expands...
This is a delightful chimney-corner tale of old New England and especially of the hardy, hearty line of Goffes who, for 200 years, have lived beside the moving waters of the family mill at Bedford, N.H., near Manchester. The first Goffe to reach...
William's descendants were cast from the same stern mold. His great-grandson, Colonel John Goffe, was a noted Indian fighter. The colonel's son John, in turn, was as robust as his forefathers. Accidentally caught in the heavy mill machinery one day, he was "squoaze so bad" that he never fully recovered and died some years later at what-for a Goffe-was the untimely...
...three days firebreaks were slashed through the forest with 'dozers on the flat and hand tools on the steep slopes. Again and again the fire lunged across. Along Mill Flat Creek on the fourth day, the crews prepared a 20-ft. break and a final stand. All morning they stamped out blazes flaring up across the line. But at 2 p.m. the fire roared across, raced three miles in 38 minutes, destroyed a fresh 4,000-acre tract of prime timber - 2,000,000 trees-before evening. "This," said one ranger, "is a classic fire...
Grey Market. The U.S. has been using copper at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a year, importing about 20% of the total. But a 43-day strike last summer by the Communist-dominated Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers cut the national supply by 80,000 tons. Meanwhile, the West European boom had turned England, France and West Germany into high-bidding competitors for the international copper supply. The price of copper, which stood at 12? a Ib. at the end of World War II, shot up to 43? on the official market. Last week the unofficial grey-market price...