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...evening last week, a black Chrysler Imperial sedan rolled up in front of a motel in Decatur, Ill. The driver, a middle-size, friendly sort of fellow, and his wife checked in quietly, but a reporter was soon on their trail. Even the cost of their dinner ($1.72 for two) and the size of the tip (35?) were carefully noted. Harry Truman granted that he and Bess were not having much luck traveling "incognito...
Nominal Speed. In Decatur, Ill., two women drivers who collided at an intersection told police they were in a hurry, gave their names as Ellen Rush and Loena Quick...
...South continued to boom. One of the nation's biggest chemical centers sprang up in Alabama's tiny farming hamlet of Mclntosh, lured by its abundant salt deposits. In Decatur, Ala., Monsanto Chemical and American Viscose began building $133 million plants for Chemstrand, their jointly owned subsidiary, to manufacture Acrilan. All the synthetics -notably the new fibers like Dacron, Orion, Dynel, etc.-were growing so fast that Australian sheepherders worried that they would lose their wool market, as the Japanese had lost their market for silk...
...Negro leaders including New York's Bishop Decatur Ward Nichols of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hobson Reynolds of the Elks and Mrs. Ruth Mueller of the National Council of Negro Women. Eisenhower, said Nichols, was "not yet willing to concede that the only solution to civil rights is through a compulsory federal law," but Nichols added, "we are convinced that the election of General Eisenhower in November will greatly advance civil rights progress in America . . . [Eisenhower] stated he would be a 'soldier fighting in the ranks of civil progress...
...three days the classified ad ran in Chicago newspapers. It brought in no gallons of stale water. A Decatur cistern was tapped for a 29-year-old sample. The water heater of a high-school teacher in Oak Park yielded 30 gallons between five and twelve years old. An undertaker emptied his fire extinguisher and a grocer drained the soda pop cooler he had not cleaned for five years...