Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been through a recession. But despite the Democrats' gloomy cries about a "secondbest year," the most remarkable fact about the dip is that it was just about the mildest recession in U.S. history. While in some places, notably in Detroit and in New England's mill towns, unemployment has been acute, in terms of the total work force it has been small. The highest jobless total was 3,700,000 v. more than 4,000,000 in 1949. Last week the Government reported the figure at 3,099,000, virtually unchanged for three months straight. Industrial production, which...
...imports more than 80% of its newsprint, the new plant assures another big source of domestic supply. The new plant also represents the biggest single British investment in the U.S. since World War II and an effective variation on the concept of "trade, not aid." For the new mill is controlled by Britain's Bowater Paper Corp., Ltd., the biggest newsprint maker in the world (1,000,000 tons a year...
...greet the guests last week was a beet-faced, ramrod-straight 58-year-old named Sir Eric Bowater. Having already built a small family business into a colossus, Sir Eric decided seven years ago that he could better serve his many U.S. customers (biggest: Scripps-Howard) with a U.S. mill. He decided on Calhoun because it has plenty of water, good transportation and access to vast supplies of southern pine, which has a growth cycle of only 25 years, v. 75 years for northern spruce...
...heard the last of Nye. He was free now, and eager to thump his tub at mill gates, dockyards, and pit heads, trying to woo the workers from their leaders. "Bevan may be dead" said one Laborite,"but he won't lie down...
...Mill St., between Lowell and Winthrop, has been particularly hard hit with a rash of tickets. Last year there was considerable agitation when fire trucks could not enter Mill St., to fight a blaze in Winthrop House...