Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mouat, Metals Reserve Co. cleared away the hillside, honeycombed it with six levels of tunnels, perched a mill twelve stories high in the canyon below. Mouat would supply two-thirds of U.S. needs, and never mind the cost...
Production began June 1. Nine hundred construction workers and mill hands crowded into the five rows of new grey clapboard bungalows "downstairs"by the mill. Another 1,000-workers, wives & children-moved into the .upper town, planted grass around their houses and dormitories...
Shutdown. But Allied victories in North Africa and Sicily brought death to Mouat. Chrome could be shipped again more cheaply than Mouat could mill it. The mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...
Senator Burton saw in the passage of the Connally resolution, by an 85 to five majority, an indication of underlying faith in agreement. The passage of any Mill in the Senate by such a majority is most difficulty, said Burton, and that this Mill should be thus approved is promising...
Suffering from one of the worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken...