Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court wishes to black its face and have a minstrel, that is their business, but I deeply resent their blackening mine...
...view of the fact that the majority of the Southern whites and Negroes still prefer to maintain a segregated public-school system, a friend of mine proposes that separate schools be maintained for the majority of the children, with a small school for those few Yankees and NAACPers who just love to mix. In addition, a small, dilapidated one-room school should be kept in each southern county in order that our Northern "friends" might be able to continue their wailing about the wretched conditions in the South . . . Save your Confederate money, boys...
...jellied eels and winkles. Touts sidled up to them, peddling inside dope. Said one oldster dressed like a jockey: "Blimey, I wish my kids were 'ere. 'Cos if they were, I could put my 'and on their 'eads and swear that this information of mine is the real goods. Now look, ladies and gents, I want you to come back after the race just 'cos I want to see your 'appy, smiling faces...
...Lisbon. In exchange for 2,800,000 shares of stock (out of 4,150,000 outstanding), the Odlum interests turned over to Lisbon 15 promising uranium claims in southeast Utah and cash for diamond-drilling with a total value of $930,000. The claims are all near the rich mine started by Charlie Steen (TIME, Aug. 3), the first millionaire prospector of the uranium age. Lisbon, whose stock has shot up from 20? when it was first issued in February to around $2.75, planned to start drilling operations this week...
...Barnum L. Colton, banker and longtime close friend of Labor Leader John L. Lewis and Financier Cyrus Eaton, was elected president of Washington's Hamilton National Bank. Hand-picked by Lewis (whose United Mine Workers just bought control of Hamilton), Colton's election paves the way for the merger of Hamilton and the National Bank of Washington (controlled by Lewis since 1949). The merger would make it the No. 2 Washington bank (after the Riggs National Bank) and provide investment outlets for U.M.W.'s $140 million in reserves, welfare and retirement funds...