Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the storm clouds gathered in the rural sections. Sugar-mill owners said they were unable to operate at a profit, closed their mills. In San Luis 1,000 desperate workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...
...fact that cooperatives seem to be able to go into any business and make it pay. Example: the Consumers' Cooperative Association of North Kansas City, Mo., which started on $30,000, now owns 289 oil wells, 867 miles of pipeline, two refineries, two canneries, two sawmills, a feed mill, a soft-drink bottling plant, an insurance agency, a paint factory, etc. Another irritation to private business is the fact that marketing cooperatives are seldom prosecuted under the antitrust laws...
...generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...
...Tomorrow (Paramount), Alan Ladd's first picture since his discharge from the Army, presents Loretta Young as a deaf New England mill-town patrician and Mr. Ladd as the doctor who works to cure her deafness. Her deafness is figurative as well as literal. In its literal aspect, being merely the result of meningitis and the despair of specialists the world over, it offers no insuperable difficulty. Figuratively, it is a more stubborn case...
...Means's theory: the "Old Stone Mill" was a Christian church built before 1400 by the Norsemen...