Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question: "Can you identify these characters from novels that were later made into movies?" Two of the misses were routine, the third was most embarrassing to the evening's guest star: "In the book he disappears off a boat, in the movie he is destroyed in a burning mill." The answer that nobody knew: "The monster in Frankenstein." The embarrassed guest : Boris Karloff, who won fame as the movie monster...
Died. Philip Ainsworth Means, 52, cautious, round-faced anthropologist-ex-explorer, Inca lore expert, speculator about "the most enigmatic and puzzling building in the U.S.," the Newport, R.I. "Old Stone Mill'';* of diabetes; in Boston...
...Bank of America closed deals for three new factories-a rayon mill, a hosiery mill and a suit manufacturing plant...
...Army. She gives some 25 lectures a year, is one of the editors of the Journal of Southern History, serves many a worthy committee and cause. The quality of her writing and the originality of her subjects have kept her books well above the level of run-of-the-mill Ph.D. dissertations...
Although the U.S. had a bigger supply of raw wool than ever before, retail inventories of woolen goods ran low. Civilians hoped for a warm winter. With 10% fewer mill workers than last year, woolen production for the first quarter of 1945 may not exceed 90,000,000 yards, of which 60,000,000 yards are needed to fill Army, UNRRA and other Government orders...