Word: milles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Workers at two of Warsaw's biggest factories--including the Huta Warszawa steel mill--went on strike yesterday, union spokesmen said, adding that although the steel workers reported to the first shift at 6 a.m., they laid down their tools after a mid-morning break...
...mill night before Thanksgiving, the cold has done little to ameliorate the midnight-to-two rush. The flow of down jackets and Harvard scarves is steady, interrupted by the occasional serious shopper who asks where the bread is. A neighborhood denizen is brusque, insensitive to ambiance: "I only come here because it's open later than the bars." Shoppers look only mildly embarrassed when someone they know meets them buying bagsful of Brach's Circus Peanuts. But one student is muttering. "God I hate this place, I really hate...
DIED. Robert de Graff, 86, innovative co-founder of Pocket Books who revolutionized American publishing when he successfully marketed the first paperbacks in the U.S.; in Mill Neck, N.Y. In 1939, De Graff set out to distribute pocket-size, glossy-covered 25? paperbacks, using magazine-marketing techniques to sell them at newsstands and in grocery and drugstore chains. A test run of 100,000 paperbacks, including the likes of Lost Horizon and The Bridge of San Luis Rey, sold out the first week. By the time De Graff left active leadership of the company in 1957, Pocket Books' annual...
...under a cold fall drizzle. In the Baltic port city of Gdansk, where Solidarity was born 14 months ago, hundreds of men and women gathered at the Lenin Shipyard and draped its gate with flowers. In heavily industrialized Silesia, brawny metalworkers stood idle in the shadow of towering steel-mill chimneys. In Warsaw, flag-draped buses and tramways came to a halt, snarling traffic for blocks around...
...penance, the Chinese agreed to pay some $40 million in compensation to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the cancellation of a $420 million hot-rolling steel mill that was to form part of a second phase at Baoshan. Peking also belatedly agreed to import and pay for all of the petrochemical equipment and technology that it had originally signed for with Japanese and West German firms, a commitment that could total as much as $1.5 billion. Industrial development in the People's Republic still faces serious obstacles. Not only must the country be able to train the millions of skilled...