Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incentives used in Cuba are moral ones. People understand and speak to you all the time about how their work in the current ten million ton harvest will speed the day when the cutting of cane will be completely mechanized. Workers in all the different sections of a sugar mill we visited (which was owned by Hershey Co. before the Revolution and now is named after Camilo Cienfuegos, a leader of the R?bel Army in the war against Batista) put up big red banners in English for us stating how proud they were to be a part...
...cents. Now the entire economic organization is incomparably better, and there are grappling machines to pick up the cane and trucks with huge carts attached to them to carry the cane instead of the ancient little horse-drawn, wooden-wheeled carts to take the cane to the mill...
...Regarding the recent machinocide [Feb. 9], I must relate an incident that happened at a local steel mill: a milk-vending machine was destroyed by an angry craneman after he lost 150 to it. He maneuvered his crane over the automatic "bandit," raised it 15 feet in the air and let it drop...
Wyche took office as Tallulah's police chief last June 26, the only black to head the police department of any sizable biracial town (pop. 10,000) in the South. A down-at-the-heels mill and farming center near the Mississippi River, Tallulah has a reputation for brutality toward blacks; Wyche himself once saw a black man standing beside him gunned down by a white policeman -for little reason...
...truth is that Americans have done far too little to tame the polluting effects of technology. Even the far reaches of Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...