Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities of Tubingen and Marburg before being ordained in 1908 by his father at the Reformed cathedral of Bern. He served his ecclesiastical apprenticeship as an assistant pastor in a French-speaking parish near Geneva. Then, in 1911, he was called to the Reformed Church of Safenwil, a small mill town in northern Switzerland, where he married a sprightly young violinist named Nelly Hoffman...
...gross revenues of $117 million, reported Dryfoos, the Times netted $587,986 after taxes. This was a gain of nearly $250,000 over 1960. But as usual, the major share of the total profit ($2,212,709) reported by the New York Times Co. came from a Canadian paper mill in which the Times holds a 42% interest. It still seems to pay better to turn out blank paper than to have the wit to say something...
...successful as Mrs. Morel; her changes of expression at the slightest mention of a competitor for Paul's devotion are masterful. As Paul, Dean Slackwell is less convincing, but intense and labile enough. The camera catches the spirit of the novel in a series of leitmotifs: flowers, machinery, turning mill-wheels. Occasionally it alone sustains the sensual tone of Lawrence's introspective work...
...Suite. Seven months after his arrival at Yuba, McGara merged the company with San Francisco's Portuguese-American Tin Co. Then, in return for lavish amounts of Yuba cash or stock, he successively bought a welding company, a steel fabricating mill, a Texas petrochemical firm, an Indiana crane manufacturer, an Ohio power toolmaker, and even his former employer, Adsco Industries. Within three heady years, Yuba boasted 17 operating divisions run from a plush suite of offices in San Francisco's new Crown Zellerbach Building. Carried away by McGara's predictions that Yuba's sales would soon...
...exactly what could be done to settle the "diploma mill" problem in Massachusetts, neither Doherty nor Bulger were completely certain. "I don't know where we will go from here," one said, "but we are in hopes that some investigation can be made into the practices of fraudulent institutions which are masquerading as schools...