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Morgnano, whose second-largest employer, a cotton mill, had just laid off 400 of its 800 employees, most of them women...
...major in France, he won a citation for meritorious service. With $3,000 in Army savings, 23-year-old Spence Love went to his father's home town of Gastonia, N.C., persuaded local residents to put up another $80,000 to buy control of a clangorous old cotton mill. When cottons sagged and real estate surged in 1923, Love sold the plant for $200,000 but kept the machinery. He moved it into a modern plant that industry-hungry boosters built for him in sleepy Burlington, N.C., and he swung into weaving rayon when other textilemen shied away from...
...outside Hawaii and the U.S." Into the Sudan. Both Sugar International and Brewer are seeking a go-ahead from the four-year-old Republic of the Sudan to set up a joint U.S.-Sudanese privately owned sugar industry estimated to cost $25 million. The sugar plantation and mill would also set a free enterprise beacon in a key area of Africa. Many Sudanese leaders lean toward a state-owned industry, are being encouraged in that direction by the offer of easy credits from Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia...
...Built in 1724 and named after an ancient nearby flour mill called / Tatti. The word has no other meaning...
Electron Cutter. United Aircraft Corp.'s Hamilton Standard Division (propellers) will put on the market a machine, developed by West Germany's Carl Zeiss Foundation, that uses electron beams to weld, mill and drill hair-fine holes in the hardest known materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about...