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Unscrewed Seats. In Northern executive suites, the directors of chain stores wrung their hands in anguish, decided to do nothing. (Negroes account for at least one-fourth of all business transacted in the 300 Southern branches of Woolworth's alone.) Local managers solved the problems in different ways: in Charlotte, the proprietor of the local McLellan Store unscrewed the seats from the lunch counter. Some Kress, Walgreen and Liggett stores roped off the seats so that everybody had to stand, or closed the lunch counters altogether...
...miles of pipelines, three fertilizer plants, two feed mills, a steel-fabricating plant, a paint and grease factory and a packinghouse, counts assets of $118 million. Grossing $154 million last year, Consumers had a net of $10.3 million. It paid only $1,237,000 in taxes, less than one-fourth the federal tax alone that a non-co-op would have paid on the profits...
Funds will be used for advertisements and posters, and beginning Feb. 6 for weekend doorbell-ringing trips to New Hampshire. Scotch estimated that "it is not unfeasible that 20,000 voters, or about one-fourth of the electorate, would be contacted." He emphasized that he wanted to maintain an "anti-professional attitude" about the venture, because "the professionals have stuffed Nixon down everyone's throat...
...laggard in West Europe's aid spending. In Bonn, key Cabinet members heard Dillon out sympathetically, but the new 1960 budget introduced in the Bundestag last week earmarked less than $25 million for direct governmental technical assistance to other countries. (NATO partner Germany also spends only one-fourth of its budget on defense, while the U.S. spends half...
...complaints about featherbedding, 800 to 1,000 railroad workers, on an average, lose their jobs every week because of more automation and better equipment. But most of those who lose jobs work in nonoperating (i.e., not on trains) areas; the five operating brotherhoods, which make up only one-fourth of all railroad employees, jealously guard rules that prevent the roads from abolishing jobs...