Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...narrow streets of the mill city of Fall River, Mass. Frazzled textile workers were trudging into cinema theatres. Clerks were taking off their shoes, preparatory to reading the newspapers, while their wives washed the supper dishes. Unnoticed, a fire broke out in the abandoned mill of the Pocasset Manufacturing Co. on the edge of the business and theatrical district...
...leaders according to tonnage produced each year: U. S. Steel 23,046,000 Bethlehem 7,900,000 Youngstown-Inland (if merged) 5,040,000 Jones & Laughlin 3,000,000 Republic-Trumbull (when merged).. 1,950,000 American Rolling Mill 1,750,000 Central Alloy 1,400,000 Wheeling Steel 1,273,000 Colorado Fuel & Iron 1,138,000 Corrigan-McKinney...
...with cash, scholarships, pensions, homes for poor people. Last week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...
Something is very seriously wrong with the teaching of English in Harvard College. Many beside myself feel this to be true, and some, more immediately concerned, are struggling to improve the situation; but because I have recently been through the awful mill of English concentration, and, because through business activity since graduation I have come in direct contact with English instruction in other colleges, I feel justified in writing my criticisms...
...total number of measures introduced in the House was 8,459. Notable among last week's grist for the bill mill were three proposed Navy inquiries prompted by the S-4 disaster; a new farm-relief bill by Representative Haugen of Iowa; a Mississippi flood-control bill, by Chairman Reid of the Flood-Control Committee, calling for Federal payment of the entire program instead of only 80% as urged by the administration...