Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admit four Negro pupils to an all-white Miami elementary school next fall. The board acted without waiting for court pressure, thus reduced to five the number of Southern states that have made no move to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana...
...smaller high schools were eliminated, in states like the Dakotas, Alabama, and Mississippi, the children would have to spend a very large part of every day in travel," Hutchins explained...
...effective Feb. 13) to $1.25 an hour, up from the company's present starting pay of $1.12. Those of his 24,000 employees now earning above the old minimum get 10? an hour more. Scores of mills ranging from West Point (Ga.) Manufacturing Co. to Avondale Mills in Alabama announced that they too were raising wages. By week's end pay raises had been promised to 100,000 textile workers, and textilemen predicted increases would sweep the entire industry by summer...
Cannon also surprised fellow textilemen. For months Southern mill owners have been discussing the need to raise pay to attract and hold good employees in the rapidly urbanizing and industrializing South. There are 552,000 textile workers in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Recently, President J. Spencer Love of the nation's largest textile firm, Burlington Industries Inc. (52,000 employees), suggested that Congress raise the national minimum wage, now $1, to $1.25 an hour, so all mill operators would have to go up and none could chisel on wages to undercut his competitors on prices...
Even before the President's message was read, two Democrats occupying key positions in the Senate and House housing subcommittees, Senator John Sparkman and Congressman Albert Rains of Alabama, last week introduced housing bills that would go further than the Administration wants toward stepping up federal aid. The Rains bill, for example, would continue public housing, boost federal subsidies in slum clearance from the Administration's proposed $250 million to $500 million, throw another $500 million into the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") for mortgage purchasing, and make it easier to buy houses by slashing mortgage down...