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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joyous Daybreak." The next night 10,000 Negroes jammed two of Montgomery's largest churches and adjacent streets to savor their triumph. Appearing before each group in turn was the spiritual architect of that triumph, the Rev. Dr. King. He was too wise to be triumphant; he read to each congregation a statement that should loom large in the Negro's long, patient fight for equality...
Mooney received 763 votes, to 600 for his nearest Republican opponent. The next largest Democratic vote on the Island was for Kennedy as State Treasurer, with 578 votes. There are only about 100 registered Democrats on Nantucket...
...Mooney does not suppose that the election of a Democrat indicates a great switch of political feeling on Nantucket. "I'm riding in on a minority vote all right, but it was the largest minority Nantucket has demonstrated for some time...
...PASO NATURAL GAS will take over Pacific Northwest Pipeline (TIME, Nov. 5), exchange 14 shares of a new common "B" stock for eight common shares of Pacific Northwest. If stockholders approve, deal will make El Paso largest natural-gas supplier in U.S., give it unlimited supply of dry gas from reserves in San Juan Basin on Colorado-New Mexico border plus Pacific Northwest's future dry-gas supplies from Westcoast Transmission's Peace River field in Canada. Combined assets of both companies: $1.1 billion...
Rolling into Germany with salvage crews and empty freight cars, the Soviet conquerors of 1945 carted off everything of value. To Mother Russia went East Germany's largest factories, her atom scientists, aircraft designers and skilled laborers, goods worth $12 billion. But in 1950 the Reds decided that instead of taking out what little was left, they would let East German)-build up again and then drain off the profits. This experiment has paid off handsomely for Moscow, made East Germany the Kremlin's lustiest satellite. Last week East German production had increased to such a level that...