Word: junes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addressed summer school students at the opening convocation June 30 in Sanders Theatre. William Yandell Elliott, Director of the Summer School, and Francis Keppel, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, also spoke...
...President of Argentina was to have been overthrown at 7 a.m. on June 19. Distrustful anti-Peronista military men, who cannot forget that Arturo Frondizi took Peronista votes to get elected last year, were determined to oust him. The fact that he now espouses austere anti-Peronista economics made them the more doubtful; to the military that looked devious. The plotters underestimated Frondizi. Last week he was still in office with a strong new Cabinet, and most of the plotters were in hiding...
Through the medium of a calmly worded letter from the White House, the U.S. last week got a last-minute reprieve from a nationwide steel strike. The negotiations were deadlocked, and both sides were bracing for a June 30 walkout, when President Eisenhower wrote to United Steelworkers President David McDonald, giving the union a face-saving way to postpone a strike that neither labor nor management wants. Wrote the President: "I suggest to both parties to this dispute that they continue to bargain without interruption of production until all of the terms and conditions of a new contract are agreed...
...Lehigh Valley Railroad chalked up profits of $87,121 in May v. last May's loss of $284.321. The Norfolk & Western Railway raised its income in the first five months to $19 million with a $4,500,000 profit in May. One exception: the New Haven Railroad (TIME, June 22), which fell deeper into the red in May with a $517,039 loss, its fifth consecutive monthly loss and $150,000 greater than its loss in recession May 1958. To give the railroads hope for even better earnings, revenue freight car-loadings reached their highest level in 20 months...
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. will supply power-generating turbines to South Dakota's Big Bend dam. After Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization reversed previous ruling that national security would be endangered if foreign company received contracts (TIME, June 22), Government accepted $6,512,331 bid of British firm, rejecting low U.S. offer of $9,301,815 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...