Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VISIONS OF GERARD, by Jack Kerouac. With this story of a big, noisy family of French Canadians in the mill town of Lowell, Mass., Beat Author Jack Kerouac joins J. D. Salinger in the small company of current writers who suggest that a child can be not only innocent but a prism of grace...
Sleigh Ride. But the Russian people had good reason to guess that a shortage lay ahead. Recently bread stores have rationed customers to two loaves per purchase, and Pravda last week launched a massive campaign against grain wastage and theft. The foreman of a mill in the Kaluga region south west of Moscow was ignominiously photographed with flour he had smuggled out in his pants. In the North Caucasus, peasants raising their own livestock on private plots were denounced for buying or stealing almost 100,000 lbs. of feed grain. Restaurant managers and waiters were threatened with stiff penalties...
...radio station still hopes to construct permanent facilities on top of the Masters' Garage at the corner of Holyoke and Mill Streets, but a WHRB spokesman said yesterday that the station will have to raise a lot more money before any further plans can be made. Last spring, WHRB began a $100,000 fund drive to finance a new studio...
With some 10,000 state fire fighters, militiamen, federal troops and volunteers, Paraná officials are concentrating more on saving populated areas than fighting the flames themselves. No town has been totally burned. The biggest victory was saving Cidade Nova, site of Brazil's largest paper mill. It took 17 bulldozers and hundreds of fire fighters clearing a two-mile-wide fire lane around the town to check the flames. Though 70% of the mill's forest reserves were wiped out, the mill and town were saved...
...soap, bottles and Nile brand beer, as well as a 20,000-acre sugar plantation in Uganda that is their biggest holding, the brothers last year earned $1,400,000 on sales of $14 million. This year in Tanganyika, they fired up East Africa's first steel rolling mill and are building a brewery and candy factory. In Uganda, judiciously allied with the government's development corporation, they will also build a bag factory and eventually pulp and paper mills, and they have longer-range plans for distilling alcohol and manufacturing drugs. "We are," boasts Jayant, "the only...