Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World, The West. In the American tradition, San Francisco had boomed into being-in the stampede which followed the discovery of a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill. The town had grown richer in the raw, exciting days of the Comstock and Mother Lodes. Proud of the independence its riches brought, it had still reached for contact with the eastern U.S., first by stagecoach, then by the pony express, then by the transcontinental railroad...
Bess Wallace had gone to high school at Independence, Mo., where her family ran a flour mill, lived in quiet prosperity. When she married Harry Truman, they went to live with her widowed mother. In the nation's capital last week Mrs. Truman did the housework in her sunny, five-room apartment, as she had done it back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing...
...Said he knew nothing of German peace feelers, which had been reported from the Stockholm rumor mill...
...POWER HOUSE - Alex Comfort -Viking ($3). One brooding young mill worker blows up a train and another strangles his overbearing, nymphomaniac mistress in this doggedly realistic novel of French lower-middle-class life before and during the Nazi occupation. Power ful, depressing...
...dream of a still (built and owned by the Defense Plant Corp.). Its obvious hurry to get into production has two prime causes, beyond Government needs: 1) so long as the war lasts, the Government will buy all of Puget Sound's output, but thereafter the mill will have to compete in a civilian market against the vast flow of more cheaply produced grain and molasses alcohol; 2) the ever-thirsty U.S. is rushing completion of a bigger, $2,000,000 alcohol plant for the potent Willamette Wood Chemical Co. of Springfield...