Word: newport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirts On. That night, across the Mississippi river in Newport, Minn., about 200 raiders armed with clubs broke into the Cudahy Packing Co. plant, smashed equipment, turned loose more than 100 squealing pigs, then beat up company guards and maintenance...
This was too much for Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl. Next day, on his orders, about 2,500 National Guardsmen, swiftly mobilized in rural areas, moved into South St. Paul, Newport and Albert Lea, where there had been some slugging. It was the first time in 14 years that Minnesota's militia had been called to keep strike order...
...greatest intercollegiate tennis events comes out of a seven-year wartime hibernation this summer, when combined Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge teams meet each other in the renewal of the biennial Prentice Cup competition on the turf courts of the Newport Casino, Rhode Island...
Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby last night indicated that he would send Ted Backe, team ace and captain, along with number five man Bud Ager to the Newport competition. Previous summer commitments of the Varsity's two, three, and four men will prevent their play...
...story, which the committee dredged up from a dozen witnesses, began with International Detrola Corp., which needed steel for its radios and phonographs. To get a supply, Detrola, in August 1946, bought the Newport Rolling Mill at Newport, Ky. But Detrola's President C. Russell Feldman soon found that he still had a problem : he had no pig iron to make his steel. So, he told the committee, he made a deal with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to trade finished steel for K-F's pig iron. (He also made another deal, the committee found, with Cincinnati...