Million Dollar Hill

Because of its proficiency in dispatching enemy troops the 4.2-inch mortar in Sicily acquired the nickname Goon Gun. As a tribute to the part these mortars played in this operation, Hill 713 became known as Goon Gun Hill, at least in CWS circles. The infantry called it Million Dollar Hill because of the large number of rounds fired on it. The artillery also participated in the smoke mission. 

A. Weiss, Million Dollar Consulting, McGraw Hill, 1997... 

One characteristic of the polyolefin industry is that it is capital-intensive. This is a dimension of economic impact—the amount of money to be invested to create this industry. Unlike the downstream polymer processing and converting industry (where the classical start-up might be imagined as one small moulding machine in a garage), even the smallest polyolefin manufacturing process (the Hills PB-1 plant at start-up was just 3000 tons per annum) involves capital investment in the order of millions of dollars. 

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