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There were also new rumblings from Washington that steel companies are not expanding fast enough. Though Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was satisfied, Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. (for Crow) Girard Davidson, one of the Administration's top planners on steel and electric power, last week said that he was not. Said Davidson: by 1953 the U.S. will need 125 million tons of steel, but its capacity will be only 100 million tons...
...Benjamin J. Anderson of a local Presbyterian church told a fellowship meeting that Princeton is "Jim Crow" in many ways. "Built in the shadow of the University," he said, "the town is as backward in opportunity for colored people as any town I know...
...dragger or purse seiner, and she was known as the City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served in World War II, sweeping up enemy mines off Palau, Okinawa, the Philippines and Normandy...
...world's only hope for peace; 2) as the father of three children, he could not afford to give up his U.N. post for the lower-salaried State Department job. But to a reporter he gave a more explicit explanation: "It is well known that there is Jim Crow in Washington. It is equally well known that no Negro finds Jim Crow congenial. I am a Negro...
...Cadillac, Pullman and Jim Crow coach last week, 134 Negro businessmen journeyed from 27 states to the campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. They were delegates to the 50th annual convention of the National Negro Business League, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1900 to advance the cause of Negroes in business. While the businessmen naturally discussed the future, they also debated how well they had done in the past 50 years...