Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milder blends against the headhammering effect of 100-proof straight bourbon. To recoup, ; distillers have been lightening bourbon toward the minimum allowable 80 proof, which also cuts the excise tax and lowers retail prices. Such leading brands as Schenley's I.W. Harper, National Distillers' Old Crow and Old Grand-Dad, now come in 86 proof, one reason for the rise of straight whiskies from 9% of the total market...
ARLINGTON (pop. 178,500), a white-collar Washington suburb less than four crow-flight miles from the Supreme Court Building, faced a showdown this week. Orders to accept five Negro pupils in Arlington's schools (total enrollment: some 9,000 students) were handed down last year by U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. These five, plus some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which...
...Author Dabbs riddles the stock arguments of the segregationists. Is it "instinctive" for whites and Negroes to keep apart? Then why, asks Dabbs, are "Jim Crow" laws necessary at all? Are Negroes sexually laxer than whites? Asks Dabbs: "What classes of Negroes, what classes of whites? . . . There are grounds for believing that the Negroes of the upper middle class are even more middle-class than the whites, more insistent upon American standards." Is the Negro "inferior" by nature? Argues Dabbs: "The present scientific view is that no significant differences have been established . . . The inferior position of the Negro...
...warning against fickle women, street fights and raids by the "head-bashers" (white cops). Some titles convey political messages. One called Azi Khwelwa ("We don't ride" in Zulu) was banned by South African officials after they learned that natives took it as an incitement to boycott Jim Crow buses...
...President Henry Ford II showed stockholders a first-quarter ledger with earnings off 77% to $22.7 million. Chrysler Boss Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert had to face up to a $15.1 million loss-the biggest ever-with sales down 53%. Only General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice has anything to crow about. Chevy has bumped Ford out of the No. 1 spot; G.M.'s overall first-quarter sales were off only 11.6%, its earnings down 29.1% to $185 million; G.M. cars, though down in volume, have captured another 5% of the market to boost the company's share back...