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...change is due chiefly to the rapid expansion which has already taken place in the South's economy. Between 1939 and 1951, sales of goods manufactured in the twelve southeastern states rose 115%. v. 86% for the nation as a whole; construction in the South rose 268%, v. 183% nationwide; half the scheduled expansion of the chemical industry and four-fifths of the expansion in the pulp and paper industry are planned for the South. As the industrialization of the South continues, cost gaps will continue to close. Says Tomb: "The South's once plentiful supply of labor...
...hill country of southeastern Kentucky, politics demands something slightly more personal than a television smile or a political machine. Just what it does demand was outlined last week by young (34), brawny Sheriff George Wooton, who was a candidate for Leslie County Judge in the August 1 primary. Wrote Wooton in a campaign report to the county's only newspaper, the Thousandsticks (weekly circ...
With $1,000 borrowed from his mother in 1948, Steen packed his wife and three children off to southeastern Utah, where there are uranium mines. He "sniffed around" without the help of a Geiger counter, finally staked out claims on a high sandstone ridge in the Big Indian district near Cisco-land which AEC had officially declared "barren of possibilities." Time after time Charlie got promises of money to help develop his property, but when people took a closer look, they always backed out. The Steens lived on oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie...
...award was made by Paul Guthrie economics professor at the University of North Carolina and former member of the Wage Stabilization Board. He had been appointed by Harry Truman last December to settle the long pay haggle between 19 rail unions and 125 eastern, western and southeastern railroads. In his decision, Mediator Guthrie cited no specific ways in which rail workers had increased their productivity, simply held that rail workers are entitled to benefit from the better productivity of the whole U.S. economy. What made the decision even more surprising is the fact that the feather bedding railroad brotherhoods have...
Along a bleak stretch of the southeastern shore of Alaska, the country is blanketed by parts of three glaciers. Heavy snows fall in winter; during the summer torrential rams pour down. In that spot last week, Phillips Petroleum Co. chose to go wildcatting for oil, the first major effort of a private company. Phillips' handsome chance-taking Chairman Kenneth Stanley ("Boots") Adams, 53, thinks it is a sporting proposition largely because signs of oil have been found there by seepages and in icebergs from the area. Under Adams Phillips has built a reputation in tne oil business...