Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this unpretentious and little publicized feature of the University, in addition to its run-of-the-mill films, such as that exhibited at P.B.H., also makes many of the recordings for the collection in the poetry room, produces the movies for the remedial reading course, and during the war, aided the Navy in its search for superior equipment when it successfully completed a job that Western Electric and R.C.A. admittedly could...
...mill politician, wavy-haired, well-tailored Roger Slaughter has always shown a streak of independence, makes no bones about his conservatism. Princeton-bred and well-to-do, he has a successful law practice, plays dufferish golf at the Kansas City Country Club, generally remains aloof from the hurly-burly of Missouri politics. He particularly roused the President's ire by going out to Harry Truman's home territory*and making a rousing speech on behalf of the Case Bill just before the President vetoed it. Worse yet, a great many Kansas citizens seemed to like the speech...
...could have stopped Gandhi was brilliant, unstable Jawaharlal Nehru, but he went off on a small and dizzy tangent to his native Kashmir, where the local maharaja, Sir Hari Singh, had arrested a popular leader, the sheik Mohamed Abdullah. Sir Hari had Nehru arrested. In protest, thousands of Bombay mill workers and Calcutta transport workers went on strike. Markets closed in many cities, and in Madura five Indians were killed in riots...
...hundred years later, the site no longer seemed ideal. A smelly paper mill and a railroad yard hemmed in the school (now renamed Colby College...
Provincial Premier Thomas Douglas believes that CCF needs four years to round out its program. At the halfway mark its program looked more than halfway impressive. Saskatchewan's publicly owned industrial empire already comprises eleven Crown corporations: printing and brick plants, a woolen mill, box factory...