Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different: the whole rice crop rotted for lack of gasoline to get it to market. The following year Sayão wheedled the Government into shipping an abandoned sugar mill from the coast, set it up in Ceres, and distilled enough alcohol from the colony's sugar to keep the trucks on the road to Anapolis. So in 1946 the colony marketed 160,000 bags of rice in Sao Paulo at prices ranging from...
...private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing her as Princess of Wales (she is still only Heiress Presumptive, on the supposition that a male Heir Apparent may be born to claim...
...seemed like a bad week to Reid Robinson, head of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (C.I.O.). A third of his locals had seceded, accusing him of being proCommunist. He resigned. The man who succeeded him was his vice president, Maurice E. Travis-who was redder than Robinson. The secessionists were not appeased...
...most prominent of his contributions to the Copley exhibition is "Road to the Factory," which he terms "an abstract painting with social significance." It depicts a crowded tenament district, with a road in the background leading into the smoke-belching mouth of a steel mill...
...some intricate and mysterious process, the Business Machine cards are then put through the mill, and a "test" grade sheet similar to the original grade sheet is produced. The second safety check takes place when the "test" is compared with the original...