Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night after night strikers gathered in the colored quarter for inflammatory speeches: "If a Negro falls, let 25 whites go with him!" When Governor Arthur and the delegates left for an Assembly meeting one morning, they were greeted by boos and catcalls. But with troops on hand, no violence flared. To keep tempers down, the government canceled all liquor licenses, closed the bars and shops, where Scotch normally sells at $3.50 a fifth. Supervisors kept the power plant going; a few white housewives learned to bake bread at home. Though the strike dragged on, the union had little chance...
...over Governor Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur's annual appointments to the executive boards that help manage the islands. Negro appointees were in the minority and no Negro was named to the Development Board, which runs the key tourist industry. Hungering for an issue, the union and P.L.P. let the drivers' dispute serve...
...David Fleming Jr. received the press at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, N.Y. Photographers got appealing shots, reporters got one quote: "I want to go home." Two days later David was out of bed for the first time, had better circulation than before the operation. Doctors expected to let him go home within a fortnight...
...into Manhattan is still pending, despite the fact that the railroad has lost $3,000,000 a year on the line during the period, "enough to provide a Chevrolet for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Perlman asked for changes in the law to let railroads set their own passenger fares and service, or at least to put all passenger regulations under the Interstate Commerce Commission instead of under state agencies that "often tell the railroad opposite things...
...range of less than 2,000 miles. It lands fast (up to 150 m.p.h.) on weak brakes, often overshoots runways. It gulps so much jet fuel that it would probably break a private line. But the Reds want prestige rather than profit, are willing to let the state-owned line fly in the red for years to come...