Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews have a large publicity mill, with little real grist. Haganah, hard-pressed by the Arabs and taunted by the Irgun and Stern groups, is terrified of news which might affect "security" or show Haganah in anything but glorious victory...
This year Arcaro has won two of the four big $100,000 races run so far (the Santa Anita Handicap and the Derby). He doesn't shine as brilliantly in the cheap run-of-the-mill races, on which 26 million people do most of their betting. Says he: "Cheap horses don't need management?they just...
...Director, 34-year-old specialist in the history of art and architecture, is the author of "Mill and Mansion," a study of architecture and society in Lowell, and has contributed to periodical literature on Italian architeure of the sixteenth century...
Less typical was another deal which red-faced Mr. Germany described as a "tremendous donation of the stockholders for the benefit of this woman." The woman is Miss Alice Hansen, 3 5-year-old blonde president of Manhattan's Pittsburgh Steel Mill Co., a brokerage firm. She had a contract with Lone Star to buy 105,000 tons of pig iron at $39 a ton. She had put no cash down, and, said Germany, there was no way Lone Star could have collected if she had failed to make good...
Koons got his steel from K-F at mill cost. But to get it he had to pay over $600,000 for a lot of things K-F wanted to get rid of, e.g., jigs and dies for K-F's abandoned front-wheel-drive auto, aluminum scrap left over from experiments with car bodies. Koons told the committee he lost $500,000 on sale of the tie-in junk. But, through his steel, he netted a $14,000 final profit on the whole deal. The committee got an eye-opening account of how fast steel gets around...