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...Casualties. The President's plan was presented to the 1954 Governors' Conference at Bolton Landing, N.Y. by Vice President Richard Nixon. The need for an up-to-date road system, Nixon said, is dramatically evident in the annual statistics of highway deaths and injuries (1,340,000 in 1953, or nearly 20 times the total casualties in the first year of the Korean...
Another Kind of Fix. They also refused to give up hope. After the U.S. Government broadcast their story to the world, the Georgescus redoubled their efforts to rescue their sons. They had help. Ohio's Congresswoman Frances Bolton approached Russia's Andrei Vishinsky at a U.N. reception in New York. She got nowhere. "Oh," said Vishinsky, "Rumania is not my country." But she did not give up, took the Georgescus to see Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith. As a result, a personal letter from President Eisenhower was delivered to Rumanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last February...
Ohio. For the first time in history, a mother and her son were elected to the House. Both are Ohio Republicans. The mother: Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, 67, who has represented the 22nd Congressional District (Cleveland) since 1940, when she was chosen to fill the vacancy left by the death of her husband, Representative Chester C. Bolton. The son: Oliver P. Bolton, 35, who will be a freshman Representative from Ohio's 11th District, which adjoins his mother...
Spinner Harry Jackson, waiting for work in a Bolton mill, explained how it happened to him. "My wife works in the mill. Now she's on short time. Last week we were earning together nearly ?18 ($50.58); now, only four or five." In grim, workaday Bolton, where a third of the population depends on the mills, there were thousands of Harry Jacksons. In crowded Lancashire, there were 70,000 wholly or partly unemployed...
...fine cloth, which once clothed half of Asia, can no longer compete in price with Japanese and Indian cloth spun by cheaper labor. The world's younger nations, e.g., Argentina and Pakistan, have built their own mills, and buy less and less from Britain. Short time in Bolton will never be far away...