Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoe industry," says Congressman James A. Burke of Massachusetts, a chief promoter of curbs, "is seeking a reasonable solution such as quotas based on the 1968 import levels, perhaps allowing for a 5% increase per year." Industry spokesmen claim that expanding imports of leather and vinyl shoes-mostly from Italy and Japan -have for years absorbed all the growth in the U.S. market. Since 1955, imports have risen from 8,000,000 pairs representing only a 1% share of the domestic market to last year's 175 million pairs, or about 21% of the market. "No other industry that...
Shoestring Taxis. According to Washington's National Transportation Safety Board, the little lines have an accident fatality rate of 7.65 deaths per 100 million passenger-miles. The U.S. trunk and regional carriers, by contrast, have a fatality rate of .25 per 100 million passenger-miles...
...Fellow in Social Relations, in order to gather information for his doctoral dissertation. Associate professor Bruce Baker and David Cohen, Teaching Fellow in Social Relations, started researching the treatment last summer. At that time, they treated 28 people for acrophobia (fear of heights) and reported that 60 to 70 per cent of them were much improved...
...reasons Mike Lottman, who was the editor, gave for closing down the over-indebted Courier was that the Federal Government, the organization which should be most responsive, was behind the worst discrimination. Take, for example, Macon Country, an Alabama country which is 85 per cent back. For years whites held all the elected positions. Then, with the coming of the Civil Rights Movement, Negroes started working their way into the system. It was Macon County that elected the first black sheriff ever (or since reconstruction) in the South. (His name was Lucius Amerson. It got lots of New York Times...
...took the Negroes of Macon County a three-year campaign, which cost $20,000, to finally gain control of the ASCS board in their 85 per cent black county. That was last year. It's the only one like it in the state...