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...next 13 years until his retirement, John Ashley built up his unique work. In 1856 it became officially the Missions to Seamen and is now one of the twelve principal missionary societies of the Church of England. Today its 53 chaplains and 25 laymen operate in 80 seaports around the world...
...listeners and bounced sonorously back from the green mountainsides. In a chill drizzle, the United Mine Workers' boss warmly hailed a "new era of peace" that had brought forth one of the most impressive social landmarks in U.S. industry: a chain of ten hospitals in three states, built and operated by the U.M.W.'s welfare and retirement fund. As Lewis dedicated the chain to "those who suffered and died before us," patients and doctors watched intently from the northernmost hospital of the $26 million network, a five-story, glass-walled building so bright and strange to the Appalachian...
Medically and architecturally, the U.M.W. hospitals in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky are among the most advanced to be found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry...
From his Fontana (Calif.) plant, Henry J. Kaiser supplies the West Coast with more steel than any other steelmaker. Since he built the plant during World War II, he has expanded it seven times to keep up with a fast-growing demand. Last week Kaiser announced that he will spend $113 million to boost capacity 40% to 1,528,000 tons yearly...
...will continue as a member of the board and the executive committee. Chief executive will be I.T. & T.'s new president, Edmond H. Leavey (TIME, May 7). Hawk-faced Sosthenes Behn founded I.T. & T. in 1920, when he and brother Hernand bought a struggling Puerto Rican telephone company, built it into a $687 million communications empire that operates radiotelegraph circuits from Moscow to New Zealand, owns 33 manufacturing and research affiliates throughout the world. Behn came under fire from stock holders who charged that I.T. & T. should never have acquired ailing Postal Telegraph (which was sold to Western Union...