Word: freeport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil Rights Coordinating Committee yesterday elected Robert E. Wright '65, of Winthrop House and Bailey's Crossroads, Va., as its new chairman. Other officers elected were Noel W. Solomons '66, of Dudley House and Cambridge, vice chairman; Ann H. Popkin '67, of Moors Hall and Freeport, N.Y., secretary; Peter Orris '67, of Massachusetts Hall and New York city, treasurer; and Carl D. Pope '67, of Matthews Hall and Garrett Park, Md., education chairman...
...Freeport, Texas...
...signing ceremony. When a last obstacle appeared, Sandys persuaded Lee to iron it out privately with the Tunku. The final agreement compromised on financial issues. Singapore will loan money to the Borneo territories rather than give it outright, and a federation common market will gradually replace Singapore's freeport status...
...hidden away in the snowy pine forests of northern New England. Bean's wilderness wares are acknowledged to be among the world's best, and each day as many as 5,000 letters flow into the company's rambling yellow factory and mail order headquarters in Freeport, Me. (pop. 4,000). Not long ago, someone in Bali offered to swap two native wood carvings for a pair of Bean hunting boots, and the deal was made. But despite the countless thousands of flashlights, snowshoes and compasses it has sold since its founding half a century...
...business. The son of a Yankee horse trader, he drifted from job to job until 1911 when the boot idea struck him as he slogged wet-footed in leather boots through the Maine woods. Helped by a $400 loan from his brother Otho, he set up shop. The Freeport factory expanded steadily but haphazardly, and today it looks like a cross between Grandma's attic and a broken roller coaster. Dumbwaiters hesitantly carry materials from floor to floor through a mazelike production line. Mailing labels are typed and pasted by hand, and requests for catalogues are filed in shirt...