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Last week the old-line companies were busy changing their ways to meet the new challenge. James Lees, which once sold as much as $71 million worth of wool 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...
FRANK G. DARLINGTON Sewickley, Pa...
Visiting Pierre S. du Pont's fabulous Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square, Pa. in 1926. President Calvin Coolidge passed in Yankee silence among exotic ixora, agapanthus, orchids, vanilla vines and breadfruit, finally spotted a familiar sight. Said the President: "Bananas...
...Just Plain Silly." Next day, at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Johnstown, Pa., quite another view of automation was advanced by U.S. Steel's Chairman Benjamin Fairless. Said he: "Automation has become a menacing word-a kind of modern bogeyman with which to frighten our people." Fairless went on to show why he thought the fears "just plain silly." Was not the telephone industry the prime example of automation, with its increased use of dial phones? Yet between 1940 and 1950, said Fairless, the number of telephone operators in the U.S. increased...
Died. Worthington Scranton, 78, grand son of the founding family of Scranton, Pa., onetime (1906-28) president of the Scranton Gas & Water Co., banker, prominent figure in state and national affairs of the Republican Party, philanthropist and civic leader; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...