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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice before, cantankerous old (88) U.S. District Judge William H. Atwell had refused to order school integration in Dallas-and twice before he had been reversed by higher courts. Last week the suit brought by parents of 23 Negro schoolchildren came before Judge Atwell again. This time the judge had little choice. "It is difficult for me to approve this order," said he, "but this is a land of law and it is my duty to do what I have been ordered to do by a higher court." Result: the Dallas public schools, with 86,000 white and 17.000 Negro...
...hoped that the resulting construction would help keep unemployment next winter from exceeding the postwar high of 400,000 reached in March 1955. And the government, preparing for an election that may come as early as next spring, readied legislation to provide cash advances to farmers with unsold grain, higher pensions for veterans, widows, and the aged. These measures might help keep the economy bubbling, but would also contribute to the pressure on prices...
Industrial wages climbed higher month by month, but the cost of living edged up too. The Bureau of Statistics reported last week that prices in August set a new high for the fifth straight month-this one at 122.6 (1949 equals...
Korn became a big businessman. He installed a battery of modern machines in his middle-sized wine cellar in Johannisberg, tapped a water main to get enough water, boosted production higher and higher. Bigness finally proved his undoing. At one point, he forgot to mix in exactly the right amount of potash to match the area's good wines, and a suspicious controller caught the mistake, also discovered Korn's heavy purchases from the local chemical dealer. He called the police...
Bargains & Brahmins. Filene's Sons, as well as society, reaped the new riches. The first great discounter, the store had sales of $1,000,000 by the turn of the century, soon pushed them higher with a spectacular "automatic bargain basement." The Filenes stuffed their basement with discontinued lines, remainders, seconds that they bought far below original price. Then they passed on the savings: an automatic 25% off after twelve days, 50% after 18 days, 75% after 24 days, give it away to charity after 30 days. It rarely went that far. Only one-tenth...