Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jones & Laughlin Steel's Pittsburgh works, job cuts have bred a strange situation: some high-seniority steelworkers have been kept on only by being bumped to the lower-paying plant cafeteria, where they have replaced waitresses who in turn have been shunted to menial jobs in the mill so that the lowest-seniority workers could...
...mill...
...have conducted a Spring trip pretty regularly for 10 or 12 years now," head coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday. "But this year is not a standard run-of-the-mill year...
Novelties. Imagine a university director who is a political organizer from a textile mill; students who are mostly army privates or the children of factory workers; an American-trained academic with a world reputation in theoretical genetics turning all his energies to increasing the yield of wheat; physicists making transistors for portable radios...
...operated by the university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant. "The purpose of these factories is to serve as a base for scientific experiments," explains Tang Chin-wen, 39, the textile-mill technician whose ardent agitprop work won him the leadership of the university. "It is to change the situation that prevailed before the Cultural Revolution, when practical knowledge was divorced from theoretical knowledge...