Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word: "If you want to get along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle to consult with Democrat Jere Cooper...
Today Pickett thinks of these years as so much amateur grist to the mill. His real entertainment came while on the U.S.O. tour, when he wrestled under professional rules...
Nehru's government decided instead to let Russia put up the steel mill. Russia, keen to show the Indians that it can match the Westerners in industrial know-how, offered to put up a $95 million mill in four years. Commerce Minister Krishnamachari objected that the Russian plant would give the Communists a foothold inside central India, permitting them to intrigue among Indians, to make sure that Indian Communists were made foremen, and to channel funds into the Indian Communist Party...
...these arguments. Nehru replied that since India is also going to buy a smaller steel mill from West Germany's Krupp combine, no "politics" could be involved. Last week Private Enterpriser Krishnamachari had enough, and quit Nehru's Cabinet. "Nehru is a dictator." said he. "I see no more usefulness for my services ... I have shaken the great man's hand for the last time...
...machine-tool industry was criticized for using obsolete methods and being behind production in electric motors, steam engines, metal-cutting lathes, chemical, textile and rolling mill equipment, and most particularly in freight cars, self-propelled grain combines, tractor cultivators and threshing machines...