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...from boasting about the progress of desegregation, most Southern businessmen still act as though equality were a dirty word. In a typical reaction, a North Carolina industrialist who was discussing plans to broaden skilled-job opportunities for Negro workers, cautioned: "If we got any publicity on this, everyone would be on our necks next morning. The key word is 'inconspicuous.' We've got to do these things just as quietly as possible." Nevertheless, desegregation of industry remains one of the most powerful liberating forces in the South today. And it will continue, since industries are less concerned...
...year-old retired bodyguard who once worked for the late Detroit Industrialist Walter O. Briggs Sr., Rouse insisted that he was half Cherokee, half French Canadian, and his wife Scotch-Irish by descent-but nobody listened...
...just the kind of political gathering Stevenson likes: a black tie dinner (he wore a red tartan dinner jacket), with only his really good friends in politics invited-the wealthy, intellectual, aristocratic amateurs. Among the guests were Washington Lawyer George Ball, Louisville Editor (Courier-Journal) Barry Bingham. Chicago Industrialist (duplicating machines) Edison Dick. By the time that Stevenson's sister and biographer (My Brother Adlai), Elizabeth Ives, arrived, Stevenson was beginning to get the news from Minnesota. "It's lousy," he said. "It's just awful...
Thanks to the millions of the fabulous Du Fonts who live and die there, Delaware is a very solvent state these days. It led off fiscal 1955 with a $7,500,000 surplus, piled up almost entirely by a $7,250,000 inheritance tax windfall from the estate of Industrialist Lammot du Pont, who died in 1952. Lately, however, alarmists in Delaware have cried that rising costs would put the state in the red by the end of fiscal 1956. Last week State Auditor Clifford Hall pacified his fearful fellow citizens, reminded them of the bittersweet fact that Industrialist Eugene...
...reasons of labor relations many an industrialist pooh-poohs reports that automation will eliminate jobs. But unless automation eliminates jobs, it is neither profitable nor practical. Detroit Machine Maker Charles F. Hautau claims that he can cut a man off the payroll for every $5,000 a manufacturer invests in Hautau's automation machinery. However, for every skill eliminated, others will be created and upgraded...