Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copper. There seemed small chance of one. But there was no doubt that the industry was in deep trouble. Some 30,000 small manufacturing plants, employing 850,000 workers, faced the possibility of closing at the end of the month unless they could get more brass and copper mill products. A shortage of copper had already curtailed construction in Minneapolis, was threatening to pinch thousands of metal fabricators. The shortage, already acute, was made even tighter by last month's devastating floods in the Northeast, normally a heavy production center...
...Thumb & Bride. There was a lot of Tiffany character and tradition to preserve. The company's elegant pattern was fashioned by Charles Tiffany, then a 25-year-old country storekeeper from Connecticut who borrowed $1,000 from his mill-owner father, and with a friend set up a fine stationery and pottery shop on lower Broadway. Though the partners took in only $4.98 in the first three days, sales picked up when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought...
...generous." A veritable seascape in her getup of fish-flecked sailcloth, a fishnet stole and assorted pearls. Anita announced, however, that she wants the exclusive right to pen Tommy's life story (tentative title: The Manville Myth) before she agrees to jettison him in Reno's divorce mill. Then she sadly observed that she would go straight back to Playboy Manville if only he would forget this silly business of her signing away all her inheritance rights as his wife. Unbound by such a nasty waiver, she would be sure of a bonanza when he died-enough shekels...
Invoking the 1954 Communist Control Act for the first time, Attorney General Brownell last week charged before the Subversive Activities Control Board that the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is dominated by Communists. If the charge sticks, the Red-tainted union-now on strike in the copper industry-will lose its rights under the Labor-Management Relations Act. The Government hopes that the members will throw out their Red bosses...
...Corp. of America's new 50-million-ton "rare earth" mine at Mountain Pass, Calif., a $28 million Hughes guided-missile plant and a Douglas Aircraft experimentation plant at Tucson, industry" new plants at aviation, Phoenix, electronics and a and brand-new, "smokeless $120 million Magma Copper mine, mill smelter and town at San Manuel, Ariz., to mine the newest and biggest proved deposit of copper ore in the U.S. (see color pictures...