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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...
...China & Cotton. The changes are the price of survival for the old leaders. For years the biggest firms made only three standard types of carpets, all of them woolen and all on looms. The grades ranged from a low-price Axminster weave to a more expensive velvet weave, and a Wilton weave, costliest of all. The best wool for these rugs came from China, India and Pakistan. But in 1950 China slapped an embargo on all wool exports; India and Pakistan followed with stiff quotas on shipments, thus cutting off nearly 30% of the best grade of U.S. wool imports...
...South manufacturers of chenille bath mats started making full-scale cotton rugs with fast tufting machines in which 730 huge needles did the work of the old-fashioned looms. Instead of a bobbin and shuttle, the new machines pushed loops of yarn back and forth through a mat like a sewing machine, and did it seven to eight times faster than looms...
...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...