Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday Dewey was half forgotten as the full magnitude of the Anglo-American victory in Egypt was revealed. So 800,000 Dewey covers followed the Australian to the old paper mill; and we ordered a new set of covers on double time-picturing Admiral Harwood, the British Naval Commander at Alexandria...
...audiences, Gracie Fields's entertainment goes pretty much on its brand name acquired abroad. British servicemen find it tophole. They crowd into the studio, mill around afterwards for autographs, pour their troubles into Grycie's willing ears. One night last week two tars insisted on escorting her from her hotel to the broadcasting studio, explaining that back in England they had never got a close-up of her. Sighs Gracie: "I guess they think I'm Britannia...
...with a Heavy Foot. At 52, Eddie Rickenbacker (ne Richenbacher) had, almost better than any other American, spanned the gap from youthful hero to solid citizen, from daring combat flyer to successful businessman. Young Eddie went to work at twelve in Columbus, Ohio: glass works, brewery, steel mill, monument works, shoe factory, bicycle shop. The shop was also an automobile garage. Eddie learned to drive, moved on to an auto factory, studied engineering via the International Correspondence School. It was speed that interested him. At 20, known on all racing tracks as a man "with a heavy foot," he cleaned...
...strikes the tops of the tall mill chimneys at Ahmadabad, India's leading textile city, a hundred factory whistles shriek and scream the call to work. But there is no response. Doors remain closed and the streets empty. The mills remain idle, as they have been since August 9, the day Gandhi was arrested...
Later, hard at work in a textile mill, he had another extraordinary idea: if, as an employe, he bought cloth at less than cost, and sold it for more than cost, he would soon be in the money. He was soon in the street, his ears ringing with the millowner's "long talk on England, cricket and all that sort of thing." Next he tried "the tobacco road" to wealth. His firm shipped him to South America "to discover why the natives were not smoking our cigarets." When he turned up at his boss's engagement party floating...