Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FURTHERMORE, ONE MIGHT INFER FROM THE ARTICLE THAT MY FATHER HAD DISINHERITED MY BROTHER ROWLAND. ANY SUCH IMPLICATION IS ALSO WITHOUT BASIS OF FACT. ACTUALLY . . . MY FATHER . . . GAVE MY BROTHER ROWLAND A FINE BIG FLOUR MILL WHICH BUILT ITSELF INTO A POWERFUL BUSINESS. KNOWING YOUR DESIRE FOR ACCURACY, WHICH I CAN WELL JUDGE FROM THE EXTENTS TO WHICH RESEARCH WAS DONE BY YOUR REPORTERS BOTH IN ENGLAND AND HERE, I KNOW THAT YOU WILL CORRECT THESE UNFORTUNATE . . STATEMENTS ABOUT MY LATE BROTHER. MY FAMILY AND I WILL BE VERY GRATEFUL, INDEED...
Died. James Evershed Agate, 69, bumptiously witty, self-centered (his nine-volume autobiography is entitled Ego) cotton-mill owner who tired of working with calico ("hating every yard of it"), became one of Britain's top literary, cinema and drama critics (the London Daily Express and Sunday Times); of a heart attack; in London...
Arthur Boehn, of Cleveland's Boehn Pressure Steel Corp., said that his company had paid up to 14? a pound (mill price: around 3?). Last week he gave up in disgust, laid off his 100 employees, shut his plant...
...Grey. Solely responsible for this state of affairs was the "grey market daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price...
...confirmation did not come the next day, nor for six weeks thereafter. Durham, who expected to go home daily, washed his linen in the bathtub. Kerschbaumer, who claimed he had a $40 million letter of credit to back up his bid, said he also agreed to pay the supposed mill representatives a bonus of $18,000,000-at around $62 a ton-for distribution among mill executives. Still he could not close the deal...