Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overproduction, lack of organization, and the increasing competition of substitutes for lumber were outlined by Professor de Haas as some of the contributing causes to the deficit in the lumber industry. "Every lumber mill will need a chemical plant for converting waste products into profitable commodities in the future," said Professor de Haas...
...themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" went away to Buchtel College (now the University of Akron) and to the University of Cincinnati...
...receipts despite the most wretched weather conditions encountered since 1919. Total attendance was over a half million. The repertory consisted of one opera (Tales of Hoffman) often included in the New York Metropolitan repertory and the following light operas: Robin Hood, Princess Pat, Sari, Song of the Flame, Red Mill, Rose Marie, The Mikado, The Dollar Princess, Katinka...
Rapid City became, suddenly, a noisy pandemonium. Mill whistles screeched, fire alarms wailed loudly, people cheered and shouted; through all this racket was deeply audible the steady stentorian drumming of an airplane motor. President Coolidge, a curiously small and inconspicuous figure, stood with a group of Sunday-School children, waving a white handkerchief as he craned up at the aviator who was circling the town barely above the trees. Presently the plane dipped sharply over where the President was standing, then flew swiftly away over the distant hills. The roar of its motor, all whistles and alarms dwindled...
Long have Parisians been disgruntled at the facility with which rich U. S. citizens have been able to sever their marital relations. They argued that their "divorce mill" "was rapidly assuming the proportions of an international scandal; that the good name of France was being dragged through the mire of disrepute; that the situation was doing considerable harm to France in the U. S. and other foreign countries; that something must be done to end the "disgrace." And done...