Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern and southeastern Virginia counties with Negro populations ranging from 50% to 80% were generally all for the Gray plan. Rather than integrate their schools next autumn, they proposed to close them down. The Gray plan would give them a green light...
...career, was immersed in discussions about colonialism and "the issue of whether peoples have a right to self-government or only to good government." The Sudan got "good" government. For centuries Arab slave traders from the north had raided the Negro villages of the south, sold their captives on eastern markets. The British put down the slave trade. The dancing Dervishes became respectable Sudanese, and the British educated them...
...Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, who 20 years ago took over sick little Eastern Air Lines (some 20 planes) and made it the industry's most consistent moneymaker (profits for 1955's first half: $4,200,000), signed up for another ten years as Eastern's chairman and general manager. Since he had reached retirement age (65) two months ago, Captain Eddie could have stepped out and collected about $30,000 yearly in pension and consultant's fee. But Eastern is well into the biggest expansion program in its history ($350 million for fleets of new piston, turboprop...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (14th largest), succeeding John Dow Farrington, who continues as chief executive officer in the new position of board chairman. Yaleman ('37) Jenks helped operate military railroads in Africa, Italy and Germany in World War II, was general manager of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois before Farrington brought him to the Rock Island...
...Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel, were the work of a little-known Eastern Jewish writer who disappeared, probably into a Russian concentration camp, in the late 1930s. An intellectual who fought as a cavalryman for the Bolsheviks, Babel wrote with extraordinary power and vividness about ghetto life and the brutality of revolution...