Word: milled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marked by price increases, will cut its newsstand price from 25? to 19?, effective June 1 on a nationwide basis, with correspondingly lower rates for subscriptions. To improve production, LIFE has joined its suppliers in a $60 million program that includes the opening this year of a new paper mill (owned jointly with Crown Zellerbach Corp.) in St. Francisville, La., a $6,000,000 research project at TIME Inc.'s Springdale (Conn.) laboratory to improve paper quality, new printing facilities in the East to speed distribution, and a new electronic system for handling subscription records...
...books, a folding blackboard. Recalls Welfare Worker Dean Bowman, who arrived at the Geco uranium mines in northwestern Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...
...ritual, proudly point to the art and architecture of their monasteries and churches and to their long line of theologians and ascetics. To that line belongs the new 56-year-old Patriarch, who spent five years in the desert as a solitary monk, then, in 1936, rented an abandoned mill in Cairo (for 3? a month), fitted it with a homemade altar and started preaching. His reputation as a holy man grew, and eventually the faithful built him a small church...
Business Governor. Chapel Hill beckoned early to Luther Hodges, born March 9, 1898, eighth among nine children of a poor tenant farmer who gave up and moved into the textile-mill town of Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field...
...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...