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...Southerners were not so sure: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, hero of the Dixiecrat uprising in the Democratic Party in 1948, suggested that they march in a body down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House to see Eisenhower and tell him they would not back down; his stalemate Olin ("the Solon") Johnston had a 40-hour speech ready for one of the biggest filibusters of all time. Calmly Russell argued Thurmond out of his proposal. He told Olin the Solon to keep his speech handy, just in case. Then Virginia's Harry Byrd summed up the sense...
...importers." Tidewater's imports will be slashed from a planned 84,600 bbl. daily to only 34,200 because it imported little in the base 1954-56 period. Even the domestic producers who will benefit most from the quotas called them too little and too late. Said Olin Culberson, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls 45% of U.S. output: "There is every logical reason why the voluntary plan will break down. No voluntary plan ever worked...
...Herman E. Talmadge, Louisiana's Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin...
...descry trouble ahead for dozens of big and little U.S. companies. Sears, Roebuck & Co. owns big blocks of stock in such suppliers as Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., Florence Stove Co., and Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.; Gulf Oil has a 12% interest in Texas Gulf Sulphur, which supplies Gulf with sulphur; Olin Mathieson Chemical has 25.8% of Marquardt Aircraft and 50% of rocketmaker Reaction Motors, for which it is helping develop rocket fuel. And by successfully going back 30 years to trip Du Pont, trustbusters had won the right to try any company for things it did in long years past...
...rockets to a bamboo frame, clambered aboard the contraption, and as 47 servants lit the fuses, so goes the legend, went on history's first rocket ride. Last week in Wall Street, the stocks of the modern rocket riders were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past year; so has General Tire & Rubber Co., which owns 95% of another rocket enginemaker, Aerojet...