How to pronounce “milling”(verb) in English

They paid retail prices for their machinery. Their interest rates from the banks in the East were high. Twenty percent was not uncommon. So they told themselves the story. They werespecial because they could live in this place of wind and dust and haille and tornadoes and locusts despite the railroad, the milling companies, the implement dealers and the bankers.The story gave them back their independence. That narrative of independence remains as powerful, as false, as necessary as ever in the Dakotas.