Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opponents, there is no need for the amendment. Mrs. Griffiths counters: "Of course there would be no need for it, if the Supreme Court would do what it ought to do. But in 1938, for example, the court forced the admission of a Negro to the University of Missouri Law School, then in 1959 refused the same protection to two Texas women who applied to Texas A & M College to study science...
...Yeah, or the time Tony went out with the teacher's daughter, and the tire blew out in Pierce Lane and he had to call old Mrs. Hirsch and tell her that he was stuck out on the darkest lane in Missouri with her daughter, who just happened to have broken her bra strap at a dance-and it wasn't a lie either, she had, but he caught hell for the rest of the year." The speaker begins to laugh and stares into his beer glass for a moment. "Yeah, Tony was a really good ball-player...
...wane, a victim of the fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...
Patrolled Heat. Nowhere in the U.S. economy are labor costs running farther ahead of productivity gains than in its largest industry, construction. Wage increases average about 21 % a year, and laborers in Connecticut, Missouri, Florida and Kansas have recently won pay increases of 30% a year. Under new contracts, lathers in Cleveland will earn $ 10.71 an hour by 1972, and cement masons $10.41. Success at the bargaining table seems only to have heightened construction labor's appetite for make-work arrangements. Detroit pipefitters require a "heat-patrol" 24 hours a day, seven days a week when temporary heat...
...Among the latter are the Buckeye Pipe Line Co., a 7,000-mile network of petroleum lines; Arvida Corp., which is developing land and apartments on 35,000 acres in Florida; and Great Southwest Corp., which has extensive housing and other realty ventures in California, Texas, Georgia, Hawaii and Missouri. Ultimately, the courts will decide whether, as congressional critics of the Penn Central insist, the profits and property of the railroad's affiliates should be siphoned off to meet its debts...