Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixed up with Pittsburgh's Follansbee Steel Corp., he has had more trouble than a bear in a beehive. Richmond offered about $9,300,000 for the company, and planned to sell its equipment to Republic Steel. But when it turned out that Republic would move the mill down South, and thus take the No. 1 employer from the town of Follansbee, W. Va., the entire community swarmed down on Richmond's neck (TIME, Sept. 27). Then a group of stockholders got an injunction postponing the vote on the deal. Last week, while the stockholders' meeting...
...recent hurricane damage, then uncorked his capital levy. A one-shot tax,* it requires payments equal to 3% of property assessed at more than $5,000, 1% of business capital over $5,000, 10% of the average monthly earnings of professional men, $10,000 from every big sugar mill, $1 for every head of cattle from owners with herds of more than...
...Petrieville, Mich., the second son of a wholesale-produce man. (Curtice's older brother, LeRoy, has been an hourly-paid paint-and-metal inspector at G.M.'s Fisher Body plant since 1936.) After graduating from high school, Curtice worked for a year in a local woolen mill, saved up enough to go to Big Rapids' Ferris Institute. To pay his way, he worked as a short-order cook in the Blue Front Cafe. Eager to get on in the world, he quit Ferris after two years, moved to Ma Kelleher's boarding house in Flint, where...
Before -300 Texas ranchers last week, Tojie Harrell, president of Fort Worth's big Traders Oil Mill Co., made a short speech. Said he: "In 1953 I realized all of us would meet somewhere, but I thought it would be in the poorhouse instead of like this." The occasion was a party in honor of Tojie Harrell and his part in preserving an old Texas tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave...
Tojie Harrell had indeed almost put them all in the poorhouse. Two years ago, whole herds of Texas cattle suddenly developed a deadly disease called hyperkeratosis, and cattle died by the thousands. The disease was finally traced to cottonseed cake pellets sold by Traders Oil Mill Co. The cake had apparently been poisoned by chlorinated naphthalene in a machinery lubricant used by Harrell's feed company (TIME, March 30, 1953). Legally the cattlemen might have had a hard time collecting; chemical tests on dead cattle rarely show the naphthalene because the fatal quantities are so minute. Furthermore, since most...