Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outwardly, the loggers' strike is a jurisdictional struggle between the I.W.A. and the newly formed Newfoundland Brotherhood of Woodworkers; more profoundly, the island's economy is at issue. Two big newsprint producers, Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co. Ltd. and Bowater's Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd., are faced with the rising cost of cutting logs in Newfoundland's skimpy forests. Newfoundland Premier Joseph Roberts Smallwood, fearful that further cost increases might endanger the companies' operations, moved in to settle the dispute at Grand Falls. Liberal Smallwood, once a union organizer, rammed a bill through the provincial legislature...
...race of hardy men who for centuries wrested a precarious living from the offshore fishing banks, Newfoundlanders are turning away from the sea to more rewarding work ashore. Now the island's pulp and paper mills, its mines, its green harvest of federal social welfare payments, and the payrolls of four U.S. air and naval bases all contribute more to the economy than the island's once all-important fisheries. Before confederation, Newfoundlanders earned an average of $150 each per year; they have boosted this to $775, but their standard of living still lags far behind that...
Brothers in Christ. For the past two years Cullmann has been expounding his idea throughout Europe. There have been skeptics on both sides, but more enthusiasts. After one Cullmann lecture in Rome, "a monk who did not make himself known placed a bank note wrapped in paper into my pocket. On my way home I discovered that the following words were scrawled on the paper: 'From a Catholic monk for a poor Protestant in Rome as a symbol of Christian solidarity.' I delivered the sum to the dean of a small Waldensian seminary in Rome ... He spoke...
Outside the Washington offices of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a square-faced, silver-haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...
...Paper Tent. Paper camping equipment, which campers can use for a season or two and then discard, was put on the market by Corporate Research, Inc. of Ann Arbor. Ford Motor Co. dealers will promote the disposable camping equipment with their sales of station wagons, figure that many a family can be tempted to undertake camping for a low-enough investment. Price for four sleeping bags and a tent to sleep two adults, two children...