Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regis Paper Co., which once operated only paper mills, has grown by a careful program of buying up an adequate supply of raw materials and developing better products from them through research. As a result, the company's sales have climbed from $9,000,000 in 1934 to $200 million a year. Says President R.K. Ferguson: "We've always kept to kindred products based on utilization of our basic material-wood pulp. Good manage ment is one that concentrates in a given field." The company has also been careful of its community relations. Recently it decided to close...
Pacific Wave. Hurricane Carol, which smashed, tangled and flooded New England last week, started her career as a run-of-the-mill hurricane, perhaps a little lazier than most. On Monday morning, she was dawdling along off South Carolina, watched by airplanes and Weather Bureau radar and spinning northward at only four miles per hour. By Monday afternoon, Carol was captured by the planetary wind. It picked up her whirling mass and carried it north northeastward at 18 to 20 m.p.h. The weathermen, studying their charts, expected her to veer more sharply to the east and pass harmlessly east...
...casual passerby, everything looked normal around the University of Maryland's treeless new Georgian campus at College Park last week. Fall classes had yet to begin, but in Byrd Stadium, Football Coach Jim Tatum ran his 54-man squad (Pennsylvania mining and mill-town boys outnumber the 19 home-state boys) through first practice with high hopes of repeating his undefeated 1953 season. But across campus, in an ornate, walnut-paneled office, the U. of M.'s new president, Wilson Homer Elkins, 46, held his first press conference. Said he casually: "I don't think that...
COPPER STRIKE, which idled 33,000 workers, may prompt Attorney General Herbert Brownell to crack down soon on the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers under the new anti-Communist...
...milk) and Rangoon buses proclaim their "Benevolent" destination. U Nu is starting slowly to redistribute 10 million acres of land, and he is paying the landlords dusty but democratic compensation-one year's rent. Another Burmese item of note: a contract has been let for a steel rolling mill. The future looks so bright to them from Rangoon that the country's young Socialists tell Westerners they are more worried about the sagging world price of rice-Burma's principal source of revenue-than about the civil war. But in the context of a small power like...