Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changes are designed to cope with problems which arise, almost inevitably, in the course of administering a field with as many concentrators as Economics. As Preston commented, "We are such a big field that many of our students tend just to go through the mill. The intent of our new program is to stimulate the honors concentrator to a higher level of work and more individual work, and, for both honors and non-honors candidates, to allow some increase in his range of courses...
Moreover, the "good time" psychology of the patrons of New York's drama mill and the enormous expense of putting a Broadway show on the boards has forced Broadway into dependence on temporary "hits" that rapidly draw large audiences and then fade into oblivion before next month's epic. A show that does not promise to be immediately popular with a mass audience is completely impractical. Few can afford to pay $12 or more for a pair of tickets to a show that hasn't been predigested and approved. For example, Candide recently closed to a loss of nearly half...
Green & White. Handsome, grey-haired Carlo Lerici, who says "grave-robbing is the second oldest profession in the world," is an engineer whose family owns a steel mill in Milan. When he became interested in Etruscan tombs, one of his first steps was to get copies of a photographic air survey that Britain's Royal Air Force made of southern Etruria during World War II. Studied carefully, the photos often show hundreds of shadowy circles. These are Etruscan tombs, which affect slightly the fertility of the soil and therefore the darkness of the chlorophyll in green plants growing...
Where Sales Are Low. In the few industries with slow sales, inventories are being controlled by cutting production. General Electric will lay off about 2,500 TV-set workers for a week because stocks are higher than sales. Bates Manufacturing Co. will close a big synthetic textile mill at Androscoggin, Me. in April; Berkshire Hathaway is running nine combed-cotton mills at 60% to 80% capacity...
...Yourself. Calling the workers together on his first day. Rackley made a blunt mill-yard speech. Jessop could survive, said he, if everyone contributed extra work without pay and accepted back pay in company stock. Then he led the workers in prayer. The union local president stood up and said: "The guy makes sense...