Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Dorman, both Laetrile and Liefcort are still available in Mexico, especially in border towns near California and Texas. San Diego is the headquarters for a lay group named the International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, which drums up business for the Mexican clinics "where the discredited and worthless cancer products are used...
...Pittsburgh, a Negro druggist failed after he converted his pharmacy into a pinball parlor, whose dime machines produced a much lower return, than high-markup drugs. Hard times have hit Fairmico, a boxmaking company formed last April in Washington, D.C. Owned by Fairchild Hiller and a local Negro community group, it is Negro-managed and hires only the hard-core jobless. Absenteeism has run high, and some drug addicts have taken injections right on the factory floor. But, despite such .problems, many other new enterprises are doing surprisingly well...
...private lenders, has lined up support from dozens of major banks. Last week five of Manhattan's largest banks agreed to provide up to $50 million to help minority businessmen. A consortium of 23 Houston banks has pledged $7,000,000 for the same purpose, a nine-bank group in Philadelphia, $6,000,000, a group in Boston...
Pittsburgh's four-year-old Business & Job Development Corp., owned and run by Negroes, has won enough financial support from civic leaders to start an ambitious industrial park in the Home-wood-Brushton ghetto. Last month the nonprofit group broke ground for a $1,100,000 plant that Westinghouse Electric will lease. Westinghouse will install Negro managers, hire about 75 ghetto residents. The development corporation plans a second industrial park, two shopping centers and a ghetto bank...
Negro athletes, who have easy entree with blacks and whites alike, have formed combines to assist fellow Negroes. Three years ago, a group of pro football players, including the Cleveland Browns' ex-Fullback Jimmy Brown and the Washington Redskins' Guard John Wooten, started the nonprofit Negro Industrial and Economic Union. With a $520,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and $251,000 from the Commerce Department, the union has helped finance firms in half a dozen cities. Using such aid, former Barber Dennis Taylor, 29, has built his year-and-a-half-old Magnificent Natural Products...