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...General Mills thought of its small, efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company decided to bid on bigger & tougher things...
Last week, exhausted from the grind, he too was ready to come home on leave. But he wanted to make one last reconnaissance flight to the front. As he hurried back to a rear base of the U.S. Air Forces, the weather settled down on him in the midst of the mountains, his plane crashed into a mountainside. Two days later a searching party found his smashed plane, his body beside it, lightly covered with snow...
...Vatican-to whose service the Jesuits are specially dedicated-also anticipates material as well as spiritual contingencies, has just moved one step nearer self-sufficiency by building a grist mill behind its walls. It has had its own stocks of wheat and bread grains for some time, will grind only for the residents of 109-acre Vatican City...
...last week the greatest of all parliaments was in a hopeless muddle. Senators and Representatives, wearied by the terrible grind, their tempers frayed from working at cross-purposes, their distaste for Washington mounting, had gone home in droves. The House could not raise a quorum. The Senate witnessed the shoddy spectacle of two one-man filibusters. Early in the week Missouri's mulish Bennett Champ Clark tied up business for two days, finally forced the Mexican claims bill back into conference...
...Bump: a sudden forward projection of the pelvic region; grind: an unabashed rotation of the same...