Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boom Backstop. Within a few years, Venezuela will be using part of its ore to make steel at home. An Italian combine is under contract with the Venezuelan government to build a $200 million, 421,500-ton-a-year steel mill near the mouth of the Caroni. Last week, a few miles up the Caroni from the mill-to-be, the workmen, trucks and power shovels of a French construction firm were clearing a site for a government-owned hydroelectric plant that will provide 143,000 kw. for steelmaking, plus another 157,000 for the region's future industrial...
...Sense (Witkower Press; $3.95), by one Dan Dale Alexander, was high on U.S. bestseller lists. It is .sadly misnamed. Alexander is no man of medicine, but a sometime medical technician in the Army (where he rose to the rank of Pfc.) who got a Ph.D. from a London diploma mill. Burden of the book (aside from emphasis on the imagined importance of a full output of ear wax): "Arthritis is a deficiency of specific dietary oils. This deficiency results in a ... lack of better-grade lubricating oils for the bodily joints." The answer to it is just a question...
WEST GERMAN EXPORTS to U.S. are running 29% ahead of last year, reaching $301 million in first eight months of 1956. Some big gainers are rolling-mill products (up 145% in the first half), glassware (up 142%), semifinished textiles (up 88%), autos...
...halls of the State House and through every sizeable Massachusetts city and town. His unsuccessful 1954 opponant for re-election, James A. Burke of Hyde Park, charged then that Whittier was the "most expensive Lieutenant Governor the state has ever had. He has turned the office into a publicity mill," Burke said. And Dever, biting back at Whittier before a recent Truman testimonial dinner, said, "You have your Nixon on the national scale. We have our Whittier in Massachusetts. They are counterparts...
Divorced. Charles Samuel Addams, 44, necrographic cartoonist for The New Yorker; by slinky, lank-haired Lawyer Barbara Barb, 36, live ringer for Addams' lady lurker; after two years of marriage, no children; after Lawyer Barb established "residence" in a 45-minute divorce-mill hearing in Athens...