Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political ace in the hole is the fact that Fadden can with some exactness call himself a self-made man, which is particularly useful with the Australian electorate. He started as a messenger boy in a sugar mill in Queensland, had only a common school education. Later he taught himself accountancy, made a comfortable living at that. Now he lives unostentatiously near Brisbane, with his wife and four children, makes a point of the simplicity of his home life, his family games of Chinese checkers...
...biggest industrial center-where Russia gave birth to its first tractor, first dynamo, first blooming mill; which annually produced nearly $2,000,000,000 worth of finished goods all the way from ships to binoculars, locomotives to electric light filaments...
Enough aircraft makers had reported their second-quarter 1941 earnings by last week to prove one startling fact: despite the industry's terrific production pace, its first-half profits rose less than run-of-the-mill industrials. Five top-flight plane builders (Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, Martin, North American, United) netted $27,229,000 in the first six months, only 21% over 1940. But a cross section of U.S. industry (135 motors, steels, oils, etc.) was able to boost profits 30% (TIME...
Meanwhile he blacked his own dollar-a-pair shoes, mended the little triangular tears in his clothes characteristic of his trade, and discussed with mill friends that Second Revolutionary War, the fight between Corbett ("a most lovely splendid man") and Englishman Bob Fitzsimmons...
...John Masefield went back to Yonkers, gave a lecture at the high school (the company is very proud of him), and rejoined old friends of the mill days at the neat boardinghouse he used to live in at 8 Maple Street. William R. Booth had found him working in a Sixth Avenue saloon, and got him the mill job in the first place. Billy Booth has every word his friend has ever written, post cards and letters as well. Like "Macey," he always was a thoughtful, reading man. He still is, but he never left the mill. He is mechanical...