Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Haggard showed that in-plant meals cut down afternoon fatigue and help speed production. Workers who once took an hour for lunch outside can eat in half an hour inside, get off earlier at day's end. Many companies report other benefits. One Indiana steel mill said that five nearby saloons had to shut down after it opened a good cafeteria, while the Prudential Insurance Co. found that nutritional deficiencies among its office help-especially young girl workers, who leaned heavily on soda-and-cruller lunches-have almost disappeared. Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that the output...
...beautiful wife (Sophia Loren). The miller's problem is that the governor of the province (Vittorio De Sica) is less than scrupulous about how he uses his authority. And so one night the miller (Marcello Mastroianni) finds himself sitting helplessly on a prison cot while, back at the mill, the governor is occupying the miller's bed. But back at the gubernatorial palace, the governor's wife (Yvonne Sanson) is all alone in the gubernatorial bed. The situation clearly demands robustious action. As always, there is room at the top for an enterprising young...
...said a Los Angeles insurance executive, "the President didn't change one opinion or one vote." The crusading anti-budgeteers were more belligerent than ever. "As for taking the President's word for it-well, he has lost stature with the people," said a Boston flour mill executive. "They feel he isn't quite the fellow they voted...
...early one morning trooped 27 legislative leaders, including the ranking members of the House's and Senate's prime committees-Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Armed Services. Object of the meeting with Ike: to hear of a foreign aid program about to begin its inauspicious way through the congressional mill...
...National Equipment Leasing Corp. to rent a 15-tanker fleet costing $126 million. On land, sea and air there is a nationwide boom in equipment leasing, and rental companies are sprouting across the U.S. to supply everything from oil barges to a fleet of diesel engines, a complete rolling mill or a city power plant...