Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government has been reamed of several million dollars ... a project gone to hell." So moaned fox-faced Senator Harry Truman last week after hearing witnesses describe construction of the Army's Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant and Milan Ordnance Depot being built 100 miles from Memphis in the Tennessee hills. The Truman Committee, tirelessly investigating defense expenditures, had heard similar charges before in connection with other Army construction projects (TIME, Sept. 15). But the Memphis testimony reached a few new highs. Some of the accusations made...
...Running across the 28,000-acre plant and depot grounds are 195 miles of 16-foot, blacktop asphalt road, already cracking. Cost: $29,000 a mile; the average concrete road would have cost under $25,000. Two parallel roads lie only 75 feet apart, one on the Milan project, the other on the Wolf Creek project. Snorted Senator Truman: $149,000 wasted...
Yugoslavia's civil war raged harder than ever. The Nazis and their stooges caught so much hell from former Yugoslav soldiers, Serb Chetnik guerrillas and other Yugoslav patriots that puppet Premier Milan Neditch of Serbia called on the peasantry to battle for the Axis. Snorted a Serb spokesman in Ankara: "If Neditch thinks that he can persuade the peasants to turn upon their own fathers, sons and brothers fighting in the mountains, he has taken leave of his senses...
Serbia's stooge, General Milan Neditch, issued an ultimatum to the Chetniks, demanding that they come out of the woods and surrender. In reply the Chetniks killed 104 Croats they had captured...
Wailed one of his French critics: "He compared the shepherds of primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...