Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. In the next hour, while squad cars and a paddy wagon ferried the arrested to the police station, a crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz and "jiving" with friends who had been picked up. "Just as we were pulling away," Howison said, "a bottle smashed a squad-car window." Then it began...
...certainly sounded bad enough. Mounting a car hood in Cambridge, the scene of prolonged racial demonstrations three years ago, Brown delivered an incendiary 50-minute harangue to a crowd of some 300 Negroes. Recalling the death of a white policeman during Plainfield, N.J., riots last month, Brown bellowed: "Look what the brothers did in Plainfield. They stomped a cop to death. Good. He's dead. They stomped him to death. They threw a shopping basket on his head and took his pistol and shot him and then...
Back to Normal. In Detroit, despite continuing sniper fire, the rampage began subsiding about the time that the depleted stores ran out of items to loot. On the fifth day, Commissioner Girardin's patrol car was picking its way through downtown traffic, which finally began returning to its normal state-impossible. Suddenly the police dispatcher's voice crackled over the radio and Girardin instinctively tensed. "Watch out for stolen car," the dispatcher advised. Girardin's well-wrinkled face was wreathed in a smile. "We are just about back to normal," he said. "All we need...
...AUTOS. Steel's biggest customers were somewhat better off. General Motors, which suffered a disastrous first quarter as new-car sales slumped, managed a brighter second quarter as springtime customers appeared. Sales rose 1% in the second quarter, to $5.6 billion, and earnings of $522 million were only 4.4% below last year v. a first-quarter profit drop of 34%. For the half-year, profits were $911,567,400, or 20% below last year. Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend reported improved second-quarter sales of $1.6 billion with earnings off 11%, to $54.4 million, from the year...
...Railroads, even recently lucrative ones, showed a drop for the quarter. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New 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...