Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ninth day of the nationwide copper strike, President Truman reluctantly trundled out a Taft-Hartley injunction for the first time since Korea, sent 53,700 members of the left-wing International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers back to their jobs. Already back at work were 8,300 employees of the huge Kennecott Copper Corp., which had made a separate peace with the union five days before. Kennecott's terms: a raise averaging 15? an hour (just a fraction of a cent more than its last offer before the strike began), and an additional 4½? an hour...
Glare In the Hills. At 3:50 one morning last week, a paper-mill technician on his way to work spotted a glare in the hills and drove up a twisting road to the Adamic place. It was burning. By the time volunteer firemen arrived from Riegelsville, two miles away, the author's garage and studio had burned to its foundations. The charred wreck of a new Nash sedan sat amid the embers. The back of the old farmhouse, 100 feet away, was flaming too. The firemen drove on, ran hose to a nearby pond and put the fire...
...years had France seen such rain. Farmers slogged stolidly out to their fields to harvest the sodden crops, mill the grain and send it on its way. In little (pop. 4,400) Pont-Saint-Esprit, perched on a bluff along the River Rhone in southern France, the townspeople sat glumly in their bistros sipping wine, watching the swollen river slip past the medieval bridge which gives the town its name...
...hexed Baker Briand's flour, that the flour had been packed in fertilizer sacks, that rats in the grain elevator had contaminated the flour. The police knew better. They had traced the flour back from Briand's bakeshop through the government-controlled flour depot to a mill near Poitiers, nearly 300 miles away...
...business my father left," says Chito, "was small, and we were a large family. We couldn't make the family smaller, so we made the business larger." The brothers put up a cotton mill, soon found that to be successful ginners they would have to finance cotton growers, wound up owning four banks, 10,000 acres of cottonland. In partnership with Anderson, Clayton & Co., worldwide U.S. cotton brokers, they built two big cottonseed mills. When they found they had a surplus of cottonseed oil, they built a vegetable-shortening plant to process...