Word: mill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Derck, a new product of the star mill who looks as if he should do right well for himself, snarls his way through a ninety-minute career as the poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from...
...everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east central India, they roared in approval, "Jarkhand sadari [Separate Jarkhand]." A tribeswoman who works as a steel-mill laborer cried: "They are the people of the plains, and we are kings of the jungle...
...million). Born & bred at Harvard (where his father taught mathematics), Love came out of World War I a 23-year-old major. He took his $3,000 in savings to Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month job in a cotton mill. After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery to a new $200,000 plant built by eager-beaver boosters...
...American Woolen Co.'s mill in Riverside, R.I., all the workers knew quiet, unassuming old Albion R. Allen. He had worked up from odd jobs at $6 a week to boss dyer at $60 a week. If he had never made a lot of money, he had always managed to save some of what he made. He bought a home and lived comfortably-by himself, after his wife died. Some of his friends heard that he also dabbled in the stock market, but taciturn old Albion never talked about it. Last July, at 72, he died...
...Aaron's father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and smuggled runaway slaves to Canada, but when Aaron befriended a runaway dog, the old man blew its head off with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...