Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encouraged by its morning supremacy, the Times invaded the afternoon field in 1948 by founding the tabloid Mirror. The odds on survival seemed good. The Chandlers control a wealthy empire consisting of holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily...
...quickie and painless divorce has been a goldmine business ever since. In 1960, Alabama granted some 17,328 divorces (v. 9,274 for all Nevada. Reno included), and this year the total will be even higher. In fact, the state has won such repute as a divorce mill (as well as a place that goes easy on minor perjuries), that a group of embarrassed jurists has been trying vainly to get the old one-year, residency requirement reinstated...
According to agents of the K.G.B. (Committee for State Security, or secret police), the textile operation had flourished since 1955, when Comrades Gazenfranz and Appelbaum arrived in Frunze, capital of Soviet Central Asia's Kirghiz Republic, with a proposition for the director of the state-owned knit-goods mill. Instead of producing sweaters, they suggested, why not overcome the drastic shortage of curtain lace, a commodity highly prized both as a status symbol and as the only way to secure privacy in a land without window shades or blinds. The trio promptly set to work importing machinery and bribing...
Adapted from a novel published posthumously by Wilfred Fienburgh, M.P., the film tells the story of an able, middle-aged Laborite from a Midlands mill town (Peter Finch) who arrives at a climactic (and climacteric) moment in his career. Re-elected with a thumping majority, he expects to be offered a Cabinet post, but for no clear reason finds himself quietly scuppered. The rejection rankles. A child of poverty, the hero has unhappily contracted one of the more dangerous diseases of deficiency: galloping ambition. He finds biological consolation by attaching himself to a gorgeous platinum blonde (Mary Peach) about half...
...Ohio's smoky mill towns, the nursery schools for some of the best pro football players in the U.S.. Ferguson was a legend before he even finished Troy High School, 73 miles west of Columbus. He was so big when he entered Troy-a rock-solid 195 Ibs.-that school officials had to send out mimeographed copies of his birth certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed...