Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steel & Oil. Backed by U.S. banks, such firms as Caterpillar, International Harvester, Westinghouse, John Deere and Armco are discussing plans to put money into Argentine enterprises. Armco, Westinghouse, and McKee of Cleveland want to finish the $140 million steel mill the Argentines started at San Nicolas near Rosario. With the enthusiastic blessing of Peron, who now has to spend $500,000 a day of Argentina's dollar funds for foreign oil, representatives of U.S. oil companies have been discussing the future development of the country's underground resources. Argentine sources predict that if the oilmen decide to bring...
...They say that it is the responsibility of each student to make himself appealing enough to the club committees to receive at least one bid that he wants. If the student cannot even take that much trouble, this view point reasons, he is no fit grist for the social mill, and deserves to be excluded. The other school of thought, the 100 per centers, say that natural selection is fine--up to a point. But they insist that all Princeton men are entitled to membership in the only real social force at the college, and that everyone must receive...
Prompt Arrest. Despite the restraining efforts of priests and organizers, the threat of violence hung like Spanish moss over the bayous. In Terrebonne Parish, swamp-fire violence flared briefly when four men ambushed and shot three Negro sugar-mill workers, wounding them slightly. The four were promptly arrested. Said Governor Robert F. Kennon: "I feel it is my duty to publicly state that such acts will not be tolerated." Said Jesuit Father L. J. Twomey of New Orleans' Loyola University: "The workers are apparently willing to take whatever risks are involved to free, if not themselves, at least their...
...preliminaries were completed, the construction crew razed the old stands and set up on the spot a complete outdoor foundry for casting cement slabs. A stone crusher, a cement mixer, a narrow-gauge railway running around the field, derrick towers, travelling cranes, and a fully-equipped saw mill were...
...Look at the Future. But in New York today the most harassed teacher need not feel that his toil is wasted or that the labored grinding of the city's huge educational mill is without effect. It is already possible, here & there across the city, to look into the system's hopeful future. The astounding effects of enlightened slum clearance and enlightened teaching are dramatically evident, for instance, at P.S. 133, a clean, airy new kindergarten-to-sixth-grade elementary school in deepest Harlem...