Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halfback possibilities are Hank Zoob, Nick Mills, Bill King, Hal Louchheim, and Ted Wandel. Zoob is from Friends Central High School in Philadelphia, which Getchell calls "one of the hotbeds of soccer...
...Philadelphia...
...North. The North, which has its own segregation faults, watched and smoldered with resentment. A Long Island summer-theater audience heard South Pacific Heroine Nellie Forbush say she was from Little Rock, stopped the performance with three minutes of furious boos and hisses. A drugstore clerk in Philadelphia admitted to human dilemma: "I don't like Negroes and God knows I'd hate to have to live with them-but I can't help thinking how awful it would be if my little girls had to go through a mob to be cursed and spit upon." Said...
...rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold and the prize money divided one-half to the Pennsylvania seamen, one-fourth to the Pennsylvania treasury and only one-fourth to Gideon Olmstead and friends. During the next 30 years one federal court after another ordered Pennsylvania to hand over...
...been little rental housing construction for this group since the '20s. In Manhattan, says one real-estate man, the situation is "impossible." Bostonians can almost count on their fingers the apartment houses for middle-income families going up in their city. Apartment construction for middle-income dwellers in Philadelphia is at a virtual standstill. The National Association of Home Builders insists that the national need for such housing is so acute that it "could reach emergency proportions...