Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beck does not talk prices. Instead he writes a chatter column, fictionalizing the personalities of the shopkeepers. ("The Grist Mill ... the darnedest bust you ever heard of ... is operated by a sad-eyed, spanielesque woman named Cora.") Sample treatment : "The trouble is that whenever we advertise something-demmit, people come in and buy it. And then we're out of that too. So today we have scoured the Farmers Market in search of something that nobody could ever have any use for ... and B-ruther-r-r we have found it. Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery...
Wiry, bespectacled Charles R. Hook, president of American Rolling Mill Co., last week put this question bluntly to a Cincinnati conference of the Ohio American Legion. In trying to answer it himself, hardheaded Mr. Hook, onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, brought forth no alchemical formula for postwar prosperity. He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent. Now Armco's president thinks it is time for other black books, for more old-fashioned...
This silvery, gleaming sheet of aluminum is more than a city block long. It is shown on the run-out table of the Defense Plant Corporation's new sheet mill, operated by Alcoa at McCook, Ill. The sheet is on its way to make airplane skins. The new plant, one of the world's largest, can roll aluminum more than 50 times faster than prewar equipment...
Immediately upon arrival, part of the group was put to work clearing a vacant lot on the corner of DeWolfe and Mill Streets behind Mather Hall for a drill and athletic field...
...Confederate general killed at his first major brush with Northern troops at Mill Springs...