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...growth. This week he announced the completion of a new $600,000 hardwood-veneer mill in the Belgian Congo. Next month, at a new $2,000,000 plant in Anderson, Calif., he will start production of a new plywood, "Novoply," whose exclusive U.S. rights he bought from its Swiss inventor. It is, says Ottinger, the first successful use of waste wood chips as a satisfactory center for plywood panels, will cut production costs so tremendously that it will revolutionize the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Ply Again | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Cooper, in a string tie and Stetson, rides into town to resume his family's feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Land is the inventor of the "Land Camera," which automatically develops pictures within a minute after they are taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SX to Hear Land Talk on Cameras | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

...quite obvious that a movie about a gun will be more interesting than a movie about a knife. Guns are louder. "Colt 45" therefore has advantages over "Commanche Territory," which is concerned with the invention and inventor of the Bowie knife...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

...father, Ernest Woodruff, who in 1919, for $25 million, bought the Coca-Cola company from Asa G. Candler, who in turn had got it from Inventor Pemberton for $1,750. Hardy old Ernest Woodruff was accused by his enemies of every sharp business trick in the book, and suspected even by his friends of chewing broken Coca-Cola bottles to strengthen his teeth. Son Bob is a chip off the old block. The steel of Young Bob's determination early clashed with the flint of his father's will, and the resulting sparks could have lit up Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Sun Never Sets On Cacoola | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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