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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp mill, and timber folk talk about production of 2 billion board feet a year (v. 33 billion Stateside). Scarcely tapped, too, is Alaska's mineral treasure, which boasts 31 of the 33 metals on the U.S.'s critical list (exceptions: industrial diamonds, bauxite). The North American continent's only major tin deposits lie in the Seward Peninsula, and some of the world's biggest known iron-ore deposits wait in the Klukwan section. Coal, as one engineer says, is "all over the damn place...
Many an executive has rediscovered an old truth: he should spend his time minding the store instead of wasting time on other affairs. Cambridge's National Research Corp. recently went through its long list of trade associations, discovered that it belonged to too many and promptly resigned from 80% of them. President Richard S. Morse decided too many valuable executive man-hours were lost at trade meetings. And as they spend more time on business, executives have reached some surprising conclusions about themselves. After a critical study of his company, President Hugh F. Colvin of Pasadena's Consolidated...
...test them with a first-rate orchestra? He invited Cologne-born William Steinberg, conductor of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the London Philharmonic, to help him judge a contest for musicians under 40. The pair screened 90 applicants, "weeded out all the dilettantes,'' ended with a list of 19 competitors from nine countries. Each had to prepare a repertory of twelve classical orchestral works, four works with soloists, any two of a list of four modern works...
...Stone (TIME COVER, March 31); two glass-façaded California school buildings by San Francisco's Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass-façaded Palm Springs specialty shop by Los Angeles Architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman. In addition, Pereira & Luckman lengthened their list of honors with an Award of Merit for Beckman Instruments' Helipot Division plant at Newport Beach, Calif., and Ed Stone picked up a similar award for his U.S. Pavilion in Brussels. Winner of the A.I.A. Gold Medal, reserved as an accolade for a lifetime's accomplishment: a leading...
...known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, The Prisoner of Zenda, Random Harvest-but his only Oscar came with A Double Life in 1947. The narrator's role in The Story of Mankind (1957) completed his list of more than 100 film credits...