Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shift the islands' agriculture out of sugar cane-which is raised on 155 mostly small, uneconomical estates -and into citrus and other higher cash crops. Over protests of the sugar growers, Paiewonsky is urging the federally run Virgin Islands Corp. to close the islands' one creaky sugar mill. "Vicorp" itself is negotiating a long-term lease of 1,700 acres of government-owned and money-losing sugar fields to Big Industrialist Daniel K. Ludwig (TIME, Aug. 2). Ludwig intends to raise citrus for frozen juice then blend one part Virgin Islands juice with nine parts of juice from...
...would do well to remember John Stuart Mill: "Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action." Burt Ross, President Harvard Young Dems
...even this list does not exhaust Hachette's properties, nor its claims to dominance. Brodard et Taupin, France's largest printing house, is a Hachette subsidiary. Hachette has links with two advertising agencies, Havas and Publicis. It owns a mill that makes coated paper, has a majority interest in a company that binds books and manufactures stationery, and in another that produces textbooks and school supplies. It controls one company producing TV programs and owns another. It owns a bank. It operates all 1,217 news kiosks in Paris' Métro, railroad stations and airports...
...mill flattery includes tape-recording the professor's lectures, pretending to shift one's major to his field, and inviting the wretch to speak at one sorority house after another. One Northwestern sociologist finds graduate students going in for the "Gemeinschaft attitude"-getting folksy through baby sitting, for example. This puts them on almost unassailable ground: "How can a teacher flunk someone his kids like...
...newly efficient plants help to produce the profits. Over the past decade, the industry has averaged more than $1 billion a year to expand, modernize and automate; it plans to invest $1.2 billion this year and $1.5 billion next. Last week National Steel opened a $100 million hot-strip mill near Detroit, and in Kentucky, Armco Steel brought in two new oxygen-process steel furnaces and started pouring iron from the largest blast furnace in the Western world (daily capacity: 3,340 tons). The payoff from such new facilities as U.S. Steel's five basic oxygen furnaces now building...