Word: mill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olympic games are the most important symbol of Atlanta's evolution from provincial mill-town to modern metropolis since (dare I say it?) William Tecumseh Sherman...
...Ellsworth is my grandfather's farm, with a huge scary bull, and the dark, musty air of the feedstore across the road, and railroad tracks, where I flattened pennies when the Chicago Flyer came by. Now some guy named Bruce is advancing on my boyhood with a gigantic pepper mill, saying he'll be my waiter for tonight. Yes, thanks, Bruce, I'll need a little time. Actually, I will need a trip to Ellsworth...
...rate, the teenage and penniless F.H. found his way to Ellsworth and prospered there, somehow buying and selling farms and houses, building and operating a three-story hotel called the Orient, a shingle mill, a hardware store and a waterworks, and donating land for a station when the railroad came through in '92. That was the year he and two other men paid a surveyor to plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down...
...June and July. "The textbook definition of recession doesn't matter," says Donald Straszheim, chief economist for Merrill Lynch. "The economy is so weak that it looks like a recession to an awful lot of people." Declares Rose Marie Moore, who was recently laid off from a Massachusetts textile mill: "I'm nervous and scared. I've had my job for 10 years, and now I'm going to have to find another one. It's rough...
...Chicago, it will lead you to a dilapidated housing project built atop a former landfill whose fetid odors still rise from the basements after more than 60 years. The plight of nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...