Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Women sit by great kettles of food, or display brightly-colored cloths, or guard piles of oranges, bananas, and mangoes. Throngs of people crowd the markets and mill in the little shops where shoes, mahogany products, straw hats, sisal baskets, and old French grammar books are sold. There is movement and excitement in the streets--but the energy has no focus, it leads nowhere...
...three theatres marquees, with letters as large as any north of Times Square, often bear such inspired titles as "Lotita," "Fanny Mill," "Hawaiian Thigh" and "My Bare Lady...
...Packaged Mill. Before President Chiang Kai-shek gave the 11 project his support, businessmen and government officials spent 18 months studying a stack of reports from steel experts. Several factors argued with some persuasiveness against the effort. Among them: the proximity of Japan's burgeoning steel mills and the relatively small demand for semi-finished steel on the island, now amounting to 500,000 tons a year...
...tackling the steel-mill project, Li's steady-as-you-go scheme was challenged by bureaucrats who wanted to rush the country into steel by buying a packaged mill promising production in three years. Li's backers successfully argued that such a plant would cost more than its long-range worth. His next problem is to raise money for his own kind of plant. Plans call for three-fifths to come from private sources (foreign and domestic), two-fifths from the government. But this should not stop Li, who has a well-earned reputation for achieving success...
...predominance of such works may be a sign of a breakdown in family technology since the days when the arts of burping and diapering, of baking, basting and berry-bottling, were passed directly from mother to daughter. Similarly, today's boy is caught early in the educational status mill, so that by the time he acquires a split-level of his own, he has failed to learn from Dad, and so must learn from a book, the management of hammer, nails, plane, saw, screwdriver and puttymanship needed to keep the place from falling about his and his loved ones...