Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that ain't good," sang Frankie last week on the filmed half-hour show for which he has nicked ABC and Chesterfield some $4,500,000. He sure was right. Sinatra's ratings have tumbled steadily to put him below a run-of-the-mill crime series and a same-old-situation comedy that compete with him on the other networks. The electricity of Sinatra the performer has been short-circuited by his show's format and production. No filmed variety seems quite as canned as Sinatra's; it is shot without an audience and without...
...Eugene Gifford Grace, life means competition. And in any kind of competition-from the baseball diamond to the steel mill-he likes to lead the team. For 41 of his 81 years. Gene Grace not only captained giant Bethlehem Steel Corp., but was often the industry's most articulate spokesman in its bouts with Big Labor and Government. Last week, seven months after suffering a stroke, Chairman Grace stepped down as chief executive of the company that he had molded into the nation's second-biggest producer of steel, and its biggest shipbuilder...
This made little sense to uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration...
John McNulty did not create his own most famous character-Mat, the proprietor of a gin mill known as "Mat's." He simply wrote down what the man said. What resulted was that great Irish art form known as conversation, which, at its best, is always above and beyond the call of truth. In his later stories, McNulty often slipped into the habit of giving Mat his real name-Timothy Athena Costello, proprietor of Costello's Restaurant, Third Avenue at 44th...
store: a gin mill, a reverent term used only by its proprietor...