Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old retired cotton mill hand developed a cancerous lesion on his cheek. He went to a healer, after twelve monthly visits ($5 each) still had the lesion plus a new scar covering his cheek and forehead. At Duke the cancer was successfully treated...
...processes. It will spend $2,300,000 retooling to produce more modern rugs. A second big company, Alexander Smith Inc., has shut down its Yonkers, N.Y. woven carpet mill entirely, is moving to four newer mills (TIME, July 5), and is planning to buy a fifth to make new cotton and synthetic rugs. After a $27 million loss since 1950, it expects to be back in the black by July. Last week Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., biggest U.S. carpet maker, was closing down its century-old carpet mill at Amsterdam, N.Y. to consolidate production at Thompson ville, Conn., put more...
...Some shows are more enraptured by the physician than the cure. On The Greatest Gift, noble Dr. Eve Allen (Ann Burr) labors five times a week to fight the stuffy prejudice against women doctors; on Janet Dean, Registered Nurse, Cinemactress Ella Raines plays an angel in starched cotton; on Road of Life, Dr. Jim Brent (Don MacLaughlin) applies a platitude with every poultice. CBS Radio boasts Guiding Light and Young Dr. Malone as well as City Hospital, "where life begins and ends . . . where around the clock, 24 hours a day, men and women are dedicated to the war against suffering...
Postponing Better Days. Actually, consumer-goods gains in 1954 were relatively small. According to the report of the Central Statistical Bureau, there was a 27% increase in the production of artificial silk underwear and a 6% increase in cotton fabrics, but in surveying the whole field, the bureau found that "much of this production was still of unsatisfactory quality." Makers of pianos, cameras, champagne, cigarettes, sausages, tea, matches and soap had exceeded their production quotas...
...COTTON EXPORTS in 1955 will jump 500,000 bales or 20% over last year, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Because of the new law that permits sales of U.S. farm goods abroad for foreign currency, a deal to sell 50,000 bales to Yugoslavia has already been wrapped up, and another for 175,000 bales to Japan will soon be signed...