Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many important industries of the South, e.g., Haspel, Chrysler, International Harvester, Glenn Martin, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Negroes work side by side with whites (only South Carolina still has a law requiring segregation in work areas). Union meetings are nonsegregated, but some locals have raised hell when union headquarters ordered an end to segregated toilet facilities. But in one plant near Atlanta, when the "colored" and "white" signs over the fountains wore out, nobody bothered to repaint them, and segregation for drinking stopped. (But if someone had protested formally that it should stop, it would unquestionably have been furiously enforced...
...Washington meeting of the American Meteorological Society last week, Glenn E. Stout of the Illinois State Water Survey showed the first radar movie of a full-grown tornado roaring across the prairie (see cuts...
...Aviation sales and profits were soaring. On 37.9% higher sales, United Aircraft's net climbed about 65% to an estimated $5.5 million. North American's earnings went up 56.8% to $2,650,000 and Curtiss-Wright's 38.4% to $2,445,642. Glenn L. Martin Co., which lost $669,606 last winter, cleared $1,754,079. Some of the airlines did even better...
...Married. Glenn Davis, 28, All-America halfback ("Mr. Outside") of West Point's undefeated 1944-46 teams, now a Houston oil executive; and Mrs. Ellen Slack, 31, pretty World War II widow; in Shreveport, La., the day after Davis received word of his final divorce decree from up & coming Cinemactress Terry (Come Back, Little Sheba) Moore...
Hard-Pressed. In Paris, Texas, Patrolman Glenn Parks, investigating the robbery of a dry-cleaning shop in his neighborhood, searched a suspect's house, found two pairs of his own pants...