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...word: "If you want to get along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle to consult with Democrat Jere Cooper...
...year-old retired cotton mill hand developed a cancerous lesion on his cheek. He went to a healer, after twelve monthly visits ($5 each) still had the lesion plus a new scar covering his cheek and forehead. At Duke the cancer was successfully treated...
...million in 1953. In the past three years its losses have totaled more than $30 million. Only recently did it make a halfhearted attempt to get into synthetics; its northern plants are antiquated and its invasion of the South consisted of buying an old tobacco warehouse and an ancient mill. But Royal Little's reasons for wanting American were plain: it has $28 million in working capital and a $30 million tax loss that can be used to offset future profits. Said a Little man last week: "Textron has the management, Robbins has the plants, American Woolen...
...carpets annually, has stopped all wool-yarn production at its Bridgeport, Pa. plant, because of "heavy inroads" by newer yarns and processes. It will spend $2,300,000 retooling to produce more modern rugs. A second big company, Alexander Smith Inc., has shut down its Yonkers, N.Y. woven carpet mill entirely, is moving to four newer mills (TIME, July 5), and is planning to buy a fifth to make new cotton and synthetic rugs. After a $27 million loss since 1950, it expects to be back in the black by July. Last week Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., biggest U.S. carpet...
Today Pickett thinks of these years as so much amateur grist to the mill. His real entertainment came while on the U.S.O. tour, when he wrestled under professional rules...