Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salty soil (producing salty wheat), and has a gluten content of 60%, equal to that of the best annual wheats. Experimental plantings have yielded two crops (totaling about 68 bushels an acre) a year. No. 34,085 still has some serious defects: it bears wrinkled grain, is hard to mill, is not as resistant to frost as Tsitsin would like. But foreign experts who have visited laboratories are convinced that in a year or two Tsitsin will have produced a true mnogoletnia pshenitza (many-year wheat...
...last week they had grossed $4,000 for their summer's work, and were planning to buy a tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...
...bound for a plywood mill. Logs are rotated against a huge blade which peels them into long, thin sheets of wood...
...warning closed the barn door a little late: rumors had already touched off a buying spree in low-priced auto shares. Through the grapevine from Detroit poured an endless cackle of tips and gossip as the auto industry jockeyed for postwar position. Biggest whoppers from the gossip mill last week concerned the future of the four Fisher brothers (TIME, Aug. 14). The dope had it that the Fishers were going to: 1) buy aging Henry Ford's titanic empire; or 2) buy control of three or four smaller companies and merge these into one automaker powerful enough to buck...
Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of World War I, Hungarian-born Marcel Fodor set out for the Balkans with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...