Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTHERN NEWSPRINT production will be stepped up by the opening of one of the South's biggest newsprint mills. From fast-growing southern pine, Britain's Bowaters Southern Paper Corp.'s new, $60 million plant at Calhoun, Tenn. will turn out 130,000 tons of newsprint and 55,000 tons of kraft pulp a year. More than 100 Southern publishers have signed up to buy the mill's entire output for the next 15 years...
BURLINGTON MILLS Corp.'s purchase of Pacific Mills and Goodall-Sanford, Inc. (TIME, July 26) will be investigated by the New York Stock Exchange on complaints from stockholders that they should have been notified individually of Burlington's plans. But chances are good that nothing will come of the probe, since both stocks are higher now than they were when the offers were made. Burlington will sell Goodall-Sanford's Palm Beach suit subsidiary, will probably eventually shift the work in Goodall's biggest mill, at Sanford, Me., to the South...
...lead-off hitter for the Black Barons of the Negro National League, until he quit the game in 1948 (at the age of 37). Willie was only 14 months old when Willie Sr. began teaching him the game. Every afternoon the father would come home from the steel mill where he worked, get out a rubber ball and roll it across the floor to Willie. "I'd roll it 30 or 40 times, until I got tired," he remembers. "Willie never got tired. As soon as I stopped rolling the ball, he'd start to holler...
...Fairfield Industrial High School, Willie picked up the nickname "Buckduck," and specialized in a course in cleaning and pressing. There was no baseball team, but Willie at 14 was already good enough to play with steel-mill clubs and independent semipros. When Willie was 16, Kitty Cat called up his old friend, Lorenzo ("Piper") Davis, manager of the Black Barons, and got the boy a tryout. Three games later, young Buckduck Mays was the Barons' regular centerfielder...
...moved up to president of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., fourth largest U.S. tobacco company (Viceroys. Kools, Raleighs. Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco). The son of old Vaudevillian Walter Russell Lewis, Ohio-born Emery Lewis managed to get through grammar school before he quit to work in a paper mill. At 20 he started keeping books for American Tobacco Co., joined Brown & Williamson in 1927 as a comptroller, quickly moved up, in 1941 became vice president for sales. Lewis takes over from Timothy V. Hartnett, 63, who was named the first full-time chairman of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee...