Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning back history to 1929, Judge Weinfeld set off some 1929-style reactions. The preferred stocks of Central States, which had long since shrunk to a nubbin, came suddenly to life. Overnight, the $7 preferred shot up from 22 to 35 a share, the $6 preferred from 4¾ to 12½, and even the common stock, deemed almost worthless, rose from 4? to 12?. In a backhand sort of way, the rise was a vote of confidence in Harrison Williams-that is, in his ability to pay the money, if he must...
Inside the perimeter is vast, antlike turmoil. Old roads are swallowed up overnight; new roads are unrolled. Gigantic machines gnaw through the hills, leaving wounds of bright red earth. Brooks flow no more; they disappear into pipes. "Here's how they build a road in there," said a numbed South Carolinian. "First come bulldozers tearing up the ground. Then come more machines smoothing it down again. Then comes the tar; then come the rollers. It all moves at a good smart pace. Behind comes a little man walking along, painting a white line...
President Phil Murray of the C.I.O. Steelworkers climbed aboard an overnight train in Washington one evening last week, heading back to Pittsburgh and still grimly bent on a strike that would shut down U.S. steel production for at least a week. Just after the train pulled out, a White House telephone operator tried to get him at C.I.O. headquarters in the capital. The call finally reached Murray when he got to his Pittsburgh office next morning. Harry Truman and Phil Murray talked for several minutes. After they hung up, Murray consulted his policy committee and dispatched a terse telegram...
...Father Bishop's organizations and activities, he never forgets his responsibilities to individuals, keeps his door open to those looking for spiritual aid. Last week there was only one thing that fussed him a bit: the attention which he and St. Philip's were getting, overnight, because of the facts & figures in the Living Church Annual. "It's nothing to make any special point of," said Father Bishop...
...little business more evident to the eye than in an area round Los Angeles' Municipal Airport called "Airport Alley." Two years ago it was nothing but farmland. In 1951, it was the fastest-growing industrial beehive on the humming West Coast. More than 50 plants sprang up almost overnight. Near the Douglas and North American aircraft assembly plants are new factories making everything from jewelry to bathing suits, from power saws to bedding. In two years the value of the land shot from $4,000 to $43,560 an acre ($1 a square foot...