Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns. Gonzá1ez told his secretary to find...
Thus 46-year-old paper-mill worker Gordon Richard Long last week described to the Maidstone police how he killed his seven-year-old daughter because she was deformed and imbecile. "I loved my daughter very much," he said, "more so than if she had been normal-bringing about her death is the hardest thing I have ever done...
...were paying the freight, intolerable when prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished textiles, thus permit mills to extend their inventories. Walter F. George of Georgia wanted all OPA ceilings taken off cotton goods...
Immediate solutions which were seen as possible "outs" for the whole crisis were the announcement of the opening of the vacant lot on the corner of Mill and DeWolfe streets, the possibility of using a few other nearby, similar lots, and the argument, not yet met with a formal counter, for allowing curb parking in and near the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland House area
...acres), a superior four-room wooden house and possessing three oxen, a couple of cows and a horse (the local equivalent of a Chrysler), Nicolás was much better off than most of his fellow colonos. Yet after giving 53% of his sugar crop to the central (mill) in return for grinding it, and paying for wages, fertilizer, etc., he would have about $64 left of the $4,200 his 1946 crop was supposed to be worth. In the slow, throaty speech of the Cuban countryman, Nicolás summed up his problem: "We would be making some money...