Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking advantage of any cloud cover available. Three gyroscopes, driven by bottles of compressed air and assisted by a magnetic compass in the nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course. A small windmill in the nose regulates the range. Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device: at the set time it jams the controls and throws the bomb into a steep dive at its target. To check on accuracy, wind drift, etc., the Nazis equipped every tenth bomb with a radio signal (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
After four weeks of stormy haggling, the Cubans had gone home emptyhanded. The mission of sugar-growers and mill-owners had come to Washington in August to negotiate a new U.S. contract for their five-million-ton 1945 sugar crop. Their objective: to get the U.S. to jack up its offer ½ a lb. higher than the wartime sugar price established in 1941-2.65? a lb. Cubans say their production costs have soared 100% or more since war began; they can no longer afford to sell virtually their entire crop to the U.S. at the old price. But the Commodity...
Festivities will begin with the formation of the parade in the Eliot-Kirkland triangle at 8:15 o'clock. The marchers will tramp down Mill Street, back of Lowell House, and then turn up Plympton to Massachusetts Avenue, attracting eager hordes of Gold Coasters and Bellboys along...
Starting in the Ellot-Kirkland triangle, the parade will wind its way down Mill Street, between Winthrop and Lowell House, up Plympton Street to Mount Auburn, down the latter to Holyoke Street, and from there down Holyoke Street to the Indoor Athletic Building...
Isaac Gilman, born in Russia, started peddling papers in the U.S. when he was 19. At 43 he bought an interest in a paper mill at Fitzdale, Vt. Five years later he was sole owner. The hamlet grew from four houses to a thriving, modern community of 1,100. In gratitude, it changed its name from Fitzdale to Gilman. Wages in the mills were high and there was never any labor trouble. Owner Gilman kept them running full time during depression, called his workers by their first names, took an interest in their personal affairs, footed many a doctor...