Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farsighted Union Bag & Paper Corp. asked Washington for priorities to buy coal pulverizers and storage bins for its Savannah mill way back in August...
Last month it finally managed to purchase part of a unit, but had to build the missing pieces before the unit could be used at all. If OPA should stick to its ruling, Union's mill would have to close down one month this quarter, might not reopen for the duration because hard-to-hire mill hands would romp off to other jobs. Probable outcome: Kraft paper is so essential for shipping war materials that oil may be provided...
...whims of editors to writing minor fiction and articles on fishing. This book represents, then, the eruption of a long repressed critical volcano in which every sacred American institution from Mom down to bingo comes in for a baptism of fire. What distinguishes it from the run-of-the-mill Menckenisms and Peglerisms is a set of sound philosophical premises. The style is pungent and rings all the possible changes on the modern journalistic vocabulary, but behind it all is the conviction, set forth a generation ago by Walter Lippman's "A Preface to Morals," that American is morally...
...Kelly began practice in Philadelphia. In two small rooms of a dingy frame house in a mill section, he opened a small hospital,† performed abdominal operations so skillfully that other surgeons came to watch. After a year in Europe starting in 1886, the doctor was suggested by Dr. Osler for the Hopkins chairs of gynecology and obstetrics...
...this fancy production record General Mills is modest, even refuses to say who gets the credit. But one man stands out-glad-handing Harry A. Bullis, who started to learn the flour business as a mill laborer, in 20 years was auditor, comptroller, secretary and executive vice-president. An amateur prophet, Orator Harry Bullis in May 1940 publicly predicted the U.S. would be at war sooner than expected, started pushing the world's largest flour miller into munitions work long before any mill-sized war contracts were in sight. Fortnight ago General Mills directors gave Harry Bullis a well...