Word: lonelies
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Little Christian charity is extended toward blacks by South Africa's Dutch Reformed churches. Most refuse to admit blacks to their services. A current joke has a white policeman entering a church on a Sunday morning, where he finds a lone black on his knees. "What are you doing, Kaffir?" asks the cop. "Scrubbing the floor," answers the African. "O.K.," says the cop. "But God help you if I catch you praying...
...Were Dead." Wilson's eye from now on will be mostly upon the amazing steel mill that sprang like a jack rabbit from the East Texas piney woods. Built by the Government during World War II to produce pig iron. Lone Star had yet to pour any metal when V-J day arrived. Soon after the war, the unpromising one-furnace mill was sold for $7,500,000 to an optimistic group of Texas businessmen. To run it, they chose Germany, a onetime schoolteacher and salt packer who had grown wealthy as an oilfield wildcatter. Borrowing from the Reconstruction...
...region that had subsisted on corn and cotton, Lone Star was a godsend. "I grew up in this town," said one Daingerfield resident. "I can remember when maybe one or two mule-drawn wagons would come to town a day. We were dead before E. B. Germany and Lone Star." Along with booming payrolls. Lone Star sponsored baton-twirling classes for girls, baseball clinics for boys, professional workshops for teachers and ministers. Employees were married and buried from a chapel at the plant...
Fire in the Ashes. Like many another Texas tycoon. Germany is politically an ultraconservative and an implacable enemy of unions. His battles against the United Steelworkers Union undid most of the good will from baseball and baton twirling. In 1957 Lone Star was hit by a 23-day strike. While Germany and 770 workers slept, ate and poured steel inside, 2,600 other employees-summarily fired by Germany-picketed outside. Pipelines were cut, bombs thrown, and nonstrikers attacked until the Texas Rangers had to be called in to end the violence. Since then, labor relations have been at least quiet...
Earlier this month, Germany informed his employees that since President Kennedy had blocked any increase in steel prices. Lone Star could not afford to grant the increases in fringe benefits that the rest of the steel industry agreed to in last March's labor negotiations. The union, which now boasts more members at Lone Star (2,000) than ever before in its history, is considering another strike. If that happens. E. B. Germany will not need to seek out a creek bank to find himself with a can of worms...