Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily pro-Labor constituency of Blackburn West, in the heart of the Lancashire textile mill district, 45-year-old Socialist John Edwards launched his campaign with a rally of 3,000 vociferous supporters in King George's Hall. From now until election day, John Edwards will campaign from soapboxes at the mill gates and in the workers' canteens; he will tramp Blackburn's narrow streets in a steady house-to-house canvass, and he will make numberless speeches to street-corner gatherings from his loudspeaker...
...made two smart investments-in American Rolling Mill, in which Colonel Procter was interested, and in Crosley Radio Corp., for which he was counsel. The investments, which he cannily sold out before the 1929 crash, became the foundation of a comfortable fortune. He acquired the franchise for a hockey team and formed a syndicate which erected the $3,000,000 Cincinnati Garden (hockey, boxing, wrestling and conventions). A Cincinnati sport and amusement promoter, Willis Vance, who had dreamed of such an enterprise for a long time, still keeps an architect's drawing of his project hanging in his office...
...Cooney had won another medal with her painstaking portrait of a lonely pine overlooking the sea. Dr. Harry Smallen had studied the surf at Martha's Vineyard, Mass, and successfully avoided the soapy-water look that makes most amateur seascapes dreary as dishpans. An old New England mill seen through a stand of bare trees, by Connecticut's Samuel Meulendyke, was as gracefully rendered as it was unpretentious. With loving care, New York's Mrs. Natalie B. Baker had painted a couple of trees, My Lilacs, in her own yard...
...voting common stock and shares of nonvoting stock in proportion to the number of years worked in the community. Members bought their homes from the society and installed private kitchens. They went to work for wages in one of the society's 50 businesses, e.g., the woolen mill, furniture factory, open-hearth bakery, or the new refrigerator plant founded by profit-minded young Amanist George C. Foerstner...
...than 2,000 jet engines in 1949. (General Electric and Westinghouse were not far behind.) The Bakelite Corp. found a new use for vinyl resins in making window shades, predicted an annual market of 85 million shades in that field alone. New Bedford, Mass, got its first all-nylon mill; in Taftville, Conn., the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. transformed field corn into a new fiber called "Vicara," to be used for ties, scarves, etc. In Ohio, found-rymen excitedly poured experimental batches of "nodular iron," hoped that the new process, using magnesium, might revolutionize the whole casting industry...