Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attractive French colonial town, lay almost deserted. Shops were padlocked. Little bistros with such nostalgic names as Bar Bretagne and Café de Paris were tightly boarded. So was the Cinevox Théátre, which still advertised a movie called La Dernièe Chance. A big cotton mill, which once employed about 20,000 Vietnamese, was also closed down, but the French mill operators seemed in no great hurry to leave. Said one wrinkled old Frenchman, who had lived in Namdinh for 17 years: 'The Viets will not want to keep our mill closed down. We shall...
...biggest employers in Yonkers.† Just before World War II employment at the plant rose to a peak of 7,000. In 1948 profits hit a high of almost $7,000,000 and the plant, sprawling over 56 acres, was known as the world's largest carpet mill...
...Among the early employees was Britain's John Masefield, now Poet Laureate, who rose from the $1.05-a-day job of tin-opener to that of mistake-finder (he inspected rugs for flaws), and who later wrote a book about his experiences, In the Mill...
Snead's most disastrous performance was undoubtedly the famed 18th hole at Spring Mill near Philadelphia in the Open of 1939. It has become a classic of a kind. His first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled...
...began is unclear; why is plain. The owners of the world's newest, biggest jute mill at Narayanganj, East Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...