Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought...
Lettuce-growing, ballyhoo-loving Salinas, Calif, was bursting with civic pride last week: homegrown, natural rubber in small but commercial quantities was bouncing from its Government-owned guayule-processing mill. Pounding, chopping and sloshing away night & day at mounds of tough, dry guayule shrubs harvested and baled in the fields near by, the little mill was turning out six tons of 100%-California rubber every 24 hours...
Within about three months the Salinas mill will have ground its way through all the guayule now available (it takes two to three years to grow to commercial size). But if the Government's growing program in the Southwest pans out, there will be enough to produce 21,000 tons in late 1944, and perhaps 80,000 tons...
...mill subscribers went a frank letter: "I ask your immediate help. . . . Within the next two months we must raise $25,000. If we fail . . . the Nation will [die]. . . . Won't you fill out the enclosed membership blank and send it back with a check...
...Congress, the chances of getting anything done before March 15th, the beginning of the fiscal year, seem very poor. It looks like a race between Congress and the Treasury to see who can change the Ruml plan enough to call it their own prodigy, push it through the legislative mill, and take the credit. Looking back over the record of the Treasury's failures on Capitol Hill, it looks like easy money on Congress, a seat in the bleachers for Mr. Ruml, and a sharp jolt to the taxpayer who has been floating around in the optimistic misconception that...