Word: calhounism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hiwassee River in Calhoun, Tenn. last week, the South passed an important milestone in its fast industrial growth. The milestone: dedication of a $60 million newsprint plant that will provide 750 jobs and an important outlet for one of Dixie's most abundant natural resources-southern pine. Outside the long, low buildings, some 450 visiting publishers and their wives inspected a giant man-made pond, as big as the Yale Bowl and capable of storing 30,000 cords of wood under water to guard against decay. Inside, they looked over two huge papermaking machines producing at the rate...
...week was a beet-faced, ramrod-straight 58-year-old named Sir Eric Bowater. Having already built a small family business into a colossus, Sir Eric decided seven years ago that he could better serve his many U.S. customers (biggest: Scripps-Howard) with a U.S. mill. He decided on Calhoun because it has plenty of water, good transportation and access to vast supplies of southern pine, which has a growth cycle of only 25 years, v. 75 years for northern spruce...
...Eric thinks that demand would soar from 800,000 tons to 2,500,000 tons a year if the papers were to expand to their prewar size. And he is so enthusiastic about U.S. prospects that last week he announced a third paper machine will be added to the Calhoun plant, making it the biggest newsprint mill in the South...
Then Yale Theology Professor Robert L. Calhoun, a Congregationalist, rose to speak for the more here-and-now point of view commonly found in the U.S. What is often called "American activism." said Calhoun, owes its origins partly to "frontier evangelism . . . among the log cabins, in the forests and prairies . . . [with] little use for theological subtlety," and partly to the "social gospel" that came with the "growth of cities, industrialization, scientific and technical advance and development of state-supported schools and universities that exclude dogmatic religious instruction...
Rebel Rose, by Ishbel Ross (Harper; $4), tells the fascinating story of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a Maryland beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand...