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Word: mill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perceptive and engaging letters, is a remarkable record of an extraordinarily hungry and ambitious mind feeding on the world. "Why should we be owls, when we can be eagles?" he wrote to his brother George who had emigrated in 1818 to America and eventually became a prosperous Louisville mill owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chameleon Poet | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...five Cahaly brothers grow up in Damascus, Syria, "the oldest city in the world," Ralph boasts. Their parents worked in a silk mill. Mike, "10 or 12 years older" than 60-year-old Ralph, came to America in time to fight in World War I. Ralph arrived in 1920, at the age of 17, and found his first job in a Liggetts drug store. The brothers opened a small grocery store in 1922 on Oxford St. in Cambridge, but after six years made a fateful move. All of their four succeeding stores were on Mount Auburn St. Old graduates...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Tradition Crumbles; Cahalys to Move | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...read in the New York Times this morning," President Kennedy told 7,000 listeners in the piney foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks last week, "that if Wilbur Mills requested it, I'd be glad to come down here and sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. I want to say I am delighted." Kennedy meant what he said. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Arkansas Democrat Mills has powered three of the President's principal pieces of legislation through the House: the tax and trade bills of 1962 and the tax-cut bill now before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Down by the Old Mills Stream | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...French -but it has never been totally subdued. No Algerians fought more heroically in the 1954-62 guerrilla war against France; yet the Kabyles charge that Arab Ben Bella has done little for their devastated region. Indeed, grass is growing up around the cornerstones of many a promised textile mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The First Revolt | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Died. Harry Amos Bullis, 71, longtime president and chairman (1943-59) of Minneapolis' General Mills, Inc., the nation's largest flour miller ($524 million in sales), who joined the company as a mill hand in 1919, caught the eye of Founder James Ford Bell and became his chief lieutenant, helping expand breakfast foods (Wheaties, Cheerios), push on into convenience foods (Betty Crocker cake mixes) and half a dozen other businesses from chemicals to electronics; of Hodgkin's disease; in Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 11, 1963 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

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