Word: atchison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of summer leisure programs in the ghetto. Says Bedgood: "Everyone was real happy. Like man, they brought jazz groups in, they brought the symphony in, we had plays, we had rock groups. Practically every night they had something going. There was just no time to riot." Leon Atchison, assistant to Detroit's able black Representative John Conyers Jr., calls these bootstrap efforts "sort of a Reconstruction revisited." He adds: "After the violence of 1967, it became apparent to blacks that war and confrontation in the streets was not the answer. It's a no-win deal...
...swimming pool. Security has been guaranteed by 1,500 ft. of new fencing and several observation posts constructed in the same tile-roofed style as the villa's main buildings. Spotlights have been installed on the bluff to illuminate the ocean at night. Even the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., whose line runs along the base of the cliff, has cooperated to assure the President's relaxation. It has ordered its engineers to slow down and refrain from sounding their whistles when passing Cotton Point...
...Santa Fe Industries" may sound like an overextended name for a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo Indian blankets. When the name begins to appear on stock tapes sometime later this summer or early fall, even Easterners will soon learn that it refers to the big and already well-known Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Like other U.S. railroads, the fourth largest, Santa Fe, has become increasingly active in nonrail businesses, now receives about $17 million annually, or close to 30% of its total earnings, from these other activities...
...Heineman, has merger agreements worked out with the Chicago Great Western, and would like to include the Milwaukee Road. The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, with 9,200 miles of frequently parallel track, hope to merge too. The Missouri Pacific is anxious to take over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The three "Northerns"-the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington-have been given tentative ICC permission to combine lines that cover most of the territory between Chicago and the Pacific. The Rock Island Line, an enticing property despite financial difficulties, has a plethora of suitors. Hoping...
...York Central, still waiting to merge, each had lower earnings for the half-year (although the Central managed to move out of the red in the second quarter), while a drop in car-loadings affected healthier lines like the Norfolk & Western, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe. Airlines were mixed...