Word: l
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon of May 16, 1955, according to L. (for Leonard) Ewing Scott, his wife Evelyn sent him to a drugstore to buy her some tooth powder. When he got back to their $75,000 house in west Los Angeles' expensive Bel Air section, she had vanished, leaving behind no note, no indication of where she had gone...
...evidence of these and other circumstantial items, L. Ewing Scott was convicted of the murder of his wife, sentenced last week to life imprisonment in an unusual case in which neither a murder weapon nor a body ever was found...
...best-oiled Negro political machine in the U.S. is run by Chicago's Congressman William L. Dawson, 71 ("The Lion of the South Side"). Nobody knew it better last week than United Auto Workers' Political Action Committeeman Willoughby Abner, who got thrown out as president of the booming (13,300 members) Chicago chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. because he picked a personal fight with Dawson. A year ago Abner sensed that many a Chicago Negro felt Dawson was wrong in helping work out a compromise civil rights plank at the Democratic National Convention. Abner persuaded South Side Negroes...
...appliances up 15% v. a 4% drop for the industry, rewarded Executive Vice President Mark W. Cresap Jr., 47, one of "Shape's" prime movers, with the presidency; longtime Boss Gwilym Price remained chairman. Every industry looked for new competitive talent. To exploit new markets at home, John L. Burns, 49, took over at Radio Corp. of America as Frank Fosom neared retirement; with more exploration abroad, William Whiteford stepped up to replace Gulf Oil's retiring Boss Sidney A. Swensrud. And when General Dynamics Chairman John J. Hopkins died, the man who moved...
...aluminum, machinery and many others are planning fewer additions. But utilities, which never caught up in 1957, will have to pile on another $200 million increase to $6.5 billion next year. Many steelmen are also pushing ahead despite lower operating levels. Says Inland Steel Co.'s President Joseph L. Block, who earmarked $280 million for a three-year expansion program: "We plan for continued growth because we believe we are a growth company in a growth industry in a growth country...