Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woods" lurching off to consult an oculist-or a bartender. The steam donkey, the logging locomotive, the oldtime logging camp had all but faded out; Caterpillars crashed and thundered through the fir jungles, yanking new-cut logs along, and truck &. trailer rigs took them to the mill. Loggers still wore "tin" pants, calked boots and red hats, but they felled trees with power saws, lived in town, and rode into the woods on buses or in their own cars...
Aside from Miss La Rose, the rest of the production is run-of-the mill. Irving Harmon, the featured comedian, succeeds in milking a number of laughs from such standard skits as the phone booth routine, the twice-rented hotel room and the wishing wand gimmick. Harmon, who walks on his heels and wields an educated cane in the best W. C. Fields manner, salvages the comic aspects of the show...
...fashion show in Burlington Mills Corp.'s Manhattan office last week, the textile company showed the public something it has never seen before. Bur-Mill paraded dresses, evening gowns, men's bathing trunks and men's & women's suits of Du Font's new synthetic, Orion (TIME, March 20). The garments were washable, wrinkle-resistant, warm to the touch, and, unlike nylon, were porous...
...Francis W. White, 56, was named president of the $106 million American Woolen Co., world's largest woolen & worsted manufacturer, to succeed Moses Pendleton, who died last month. Frank White has been in the woolen & worsted business for 26 years, 15 of them with American Woolen as a mill manager and top textile designer. His next big job: designing a new look for American Woolen's profits, which plummeted from $16,472,393 in 1948 to $2,194,451 last year...
...were moved out, and several archaeological specimens were unearthed. One of these was a nineteenth century rowing tank, big enough for two people and useless for geological purposes, which was promptly covered over again. Another discovery was a solid 13-inch concrete floor, left over from a departed stamp mill, which turned out to be a perfect base for an experiment by Louis C. Graton, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, who retired last year...