Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fraud-just tender-footedness. After watching his wife and daughters weaken from malnutrition and dysentery, Bud Boyd had marched out, returned with mounts, Rancher Proctor, the spaghetti, and other restoratives. Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home...
Millburn, N.J., Paper Mill Playhouse: A new play by Kieran Tunney, Royal Enclosure, with Celeste Holm and Cathleen Nesbitt...
Andover, N.J., Grist Mill Playhouse: Betsy Palmer in a new play by Lesley Storm, Roar Like a Dove...
...reporter for the Courier-Freeman, the reigning Yankees - the old-line whaling and rum-trading families which regularly produced one Harvard professor, one state Governor and one well-bred alcoholic in each generation - had only begun to abdicate. Jostled from political control by their own Irish and Italian mill hands, they retreated to the banks and sulked. One by one they ran their family businesses into the ground, draining off profits and refusing to replace worn-out machines...
...dollar on the free market (official rate 45 to one), and the presses still clacked out new money to support a 250,000-man army that gobbles up 50% of the budget. Commerce had slowed to a near standstill; in central Java only 50 sugar mills were operating (v. 120 prewar), and some 200,000 mill workers were unemployed. Everywhere, there was graft, red tape and spectacular inefficiency. Shiny new Czech tractors proved useless in the flooded rice fields; some 30% of a 100,000-ton Swedish shipment of cement had turned to rock because no one thought to bring...