Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vienna-born Movie Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger was asked to come to Manhattan to straighten out a little matter with his exwife, Marion Mill Preminger. She wants $48,800, which she claims is due her under their 1949 separation and alimony agreements. While she endures a "virtual hand-to-mouth existence," he lives high off the hog, she charged. "It is no secret that [he and his second wife] enjoy an outstanding reputation for lavishness in entertainment...
...becomes a drive-in restaurant"), other farmers who fly their own Piper Cubs as much as 600 miles for a Sunday pleasure jaunt. Industrial workers were also plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen get from a grateful government...
...England's depressed textile industry, it is standard procedure these days to operate on a part-time basis, filling orders if & when they come in. But last week one New England mill, Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Corp. of Uxbridge, Mass, was so busy that it was working three shifts six days a week, had so many unfilled orders that employees agreed to postpone their annual vacations. To many a hard-hit New England textile man, Bachmann Uxbridge's prosperity looks like some sort of dark magic. But President Harold J. (for John) Walter, 52, explains it as just...
Walter believes that any New England textile mill which keeps its machinery modern and its research ahead of the pack can compete successfully with Southern mills. Since World War II alone, Walter has spent $14 million on improving and modernizing his plant. He rebuilt his main factory, installed air conditioning, and new machinery, much of which was developed by Bachmann Uxbridge's own research laboratory. Result: output per worker has increased as much as 75%, and Uxbridge is now considered one of the most modern woolen and worsted mills in New England...
...Egypt's most important companies, including real estate, bus line, textile and cotton-trading interests. Altogether, Ab-boud's companies supply Egypt's leading newspapers with 60% of their advertising revenues. Last week Abboud decided to get into still another field: he will build a mill to make paper, which Egypt needs, from the waste of his refineries...