Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgians select the most promising young men (not necessarily the best high jumpers) and give them a nine-year course of training in the .Groupe Scolaire at Astrida in Ruanda. The Catholic priests who run the Groupe call the first four years of the course "the rolling mill." During this period the aristocratic young giants are subjected to constant surveillance and iron discipline, including very hard beds. "The rolling mill" squeezes out two-thirds of the students and the priests do not want the two-thirds who fail to go back to their villages demanding soft beds. The successful third...
Convinced that anyone who could make money on "such tripe" could certainly run a cotton mill, father Springs took his son back as a vice president (after making him promise that he would write no more books). Since the elder Springs's death in 1931, Elliott, who still flies his own plane, has run the family's vast (some 550,000 spindles) cotton empire, one of the three biggest...
...that TIME would ignore Lyndon Johnson's attention-seeking antics rather than dignify them by mention in its columns. I am comforted, however, by the realization that those Texans who read your columns are not exactly the type to be much impressed by the characteristics of a wind mill, whose activities depend on how the wind is blowing and which, although constantly in motion and usually screeching, never gets anywhere...
...paper as big as the morning Times itself (circ. 400,000 daily, 800,000 Sunday). Publisher Norman Chandler had just appointed 40-year-old U.P. Vice President Virgil Pinkley, a Southern Californian with both editorial and business experience, as his "executive assistant." He had also purchased a new paper mill. And within a month, the Times had signed on 25 new staffers, was quietly organizing them into reporter-photographer teams. Stringbean-shaped U.P. man Phil Ault, who had worked with Pinkley in London and North Africa, had started pounding a Times police beat-traditional prep school for prospective city editors...
...Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...