Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watches, Bicycles & Cloth. But there were other obstacles equally imposing. Many a British businessman, for example, has never been completely comfortable with the idea of giving up the "protection" of a controlled currency. Lancashire mill owners shrink at the thought of cheap Japanese cloth on British counters: British automakers shudder at the prospect of all those gleaming U.S. monsters invading their safe home market. Said one business man: "Things are going along fine right now, and as long as there is all this uncertainty, why rush into changed situations...
...months after it was seen in Manhattan, Salt of the Earth (TIME, March 29) opened to rave reviews in the anti-U.S. and left-wing press. A militantly proletarian film about striking Mexican-American zinc miners in New Mexico (sponsored by the Red-run International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers), Salt even won the measured approval of the staid Times: "American films as a whole proclaim that . . . the American way of life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case as pleaded...
...Peale retired to a big farm, which he soon made a model of scientific agriculture. He started a small cotton mill, successfully manufactured porcelain teeth for his cronies, and urged a device which he had built for taking enemas on anyone who seemed peaked. At 86 Peale died, having served freedom, progress and art to his utmost. In art, his utmost was short of greatness and not nearly as varied as the whole of his life. But he left a fine picture record of great men and great times-times in which, among other things, the artist...
...great flight of mills from the North to the South (where only 15% of mills are unionized v. 75% in the North) saved many a faltering company. Not only were labor costs cheaper in the South, but the new mills were far more efficient. The South has other advantages, e.g., it is closer to such raw materials as cotton and cellulose, and taxes are lower. But concentration of the industry in new areas is creating new problems for textilemen. So many companies have gone South that rising wages in some areas are almost as high as in New England...
...Bedford, Mass., four other hard-hit cities, and flew off to New England to check on loan requests. Among them: a Kittery (Me.) lobsterman wanted $1,500 to replace his lost boat; a Providence clothing store wanted $10,000 to replace its ruined merchandise; a New Bedford cotton mill wanted $75,000 to repair wrecked machinery. At week's end SBA offices were getting ready for more disaster loans for damage caused by Hurricane Edna (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...