Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Block Itch. In Hamilton, Ohio, police arrested John Flyman for going from door to door asking people to scratch his back...
Slug? In Louisville, Ohio, a man walked into the Beacon Finance Co., told a clerk he had business there but first wanted to borrow a nickel for a parking meter, went out with the nickel, soon returned and pulled a $900 stickup...
...Willy Brandt: "I, as well as the other members of the American Government, wish to assure you in these difficult times of undiminished American support." As if to underscore U.S. bipartisanship in Berlin, a U.S. congressional delegation of one Republican, three Democrats, toured both halves of Berlin, after which Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays summed up: "The one thing the Communists respect is force. We must take a strong position and not retreat...
...later life, said Charles Franklin Kettering, who grew up in wonderment on an Ohio farm. "Why," he asked, peering nearsightedly out of his mother's kitchen window, "can I see through a pane of glass?" "What," he asked, "is magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
Last week another merger was well past the talk stage. The Norfolk & Western and the Virginian Railway, which share the profitable soft-coal Pocahontas region with the Chesapeake & Ohio, announced that they had started studies for a merger that would add "strength to strength." Both lines are efficient operators but could profit by merging. Their merger would create a new system having 2,695 miles of main track in the South and combined assets of more than $900 million...