Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most B.A. citizens were interviewed by run-of-the-mill officials, residents of eight workers' apartments close by the President's mansion had a surprise. The head of the state and his wife personally punched their doorbells. While Perón smilingly took down the data, Evita graciously presented gifts...
Ludger Dionne, 59, is a canny industrialist who operates, among other things, a shoe factory, a heel factory and a rayon mill-all in St. Georges (pop. 6,000). Most of his rayon-mill hands-he runs two shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.-are daughters of local farmers. About 50 of them live in Le Foyer, a dormitory built as an annex to the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. On the first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls...
...explained his needs to UNRRA officials. The 100 girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...
...Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill employees from hundreds of applicants. Within a few days, they will...
...learn, Rank works 18 hours a day. He spends a half-day a week on his flour-mill affairs, the rest of the week on his movies. He is up and into a cup of tea by 7 a.m. in his suite in London's Dorchester Hotel. Before 8, in pops John Davis, 39, a slim, sharp Englishman who is Rank's general manager and heir apparent. He occupies the neighboring suite so that his encyclopedic movie knowledge, learned in 18 years in the business, is always at hand. By 9:30, Rank is in his office...