Word: piedmont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming suburbs, Alcoa let $40 million worth of contracts to expand its aluminum plant. Over the South's best highway net, semitrailers snorted day and night to serve...
Even without the big airliners, Lear has been doing well enough. Piedmont Airlines, a feeder line, has installed Lear instrument-landing equipment on eight of its planes, has found it "very satisfactory." Ozark Air Lines, another feeder, has also signed up. Lear profits in the first quarter of its fiscal year ran 33% ahead of 1958 (which registered an 87% gain over 1957) to better than $400,000. The backlog of firm orders was up to $77 million, biggest in the company's history, and a 10? dividend was declared, the third such quarterly dividend in a row. Last...
...shot showed up in at least three Southern newspapers, the Mobile Register, Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont and Aiken (S.C.) Standard and Review, without a ruffle. Picture Editor Howard Knapp of the New York Daily News spread it across Page One and called it: "The best picture of the year-it's got motion and emotion...
...match the lavish campaign efforts of its bigger rivals. To compensate, hard-driving Giovanni Malagodi has taken up a device foreign to Italian politics-the whistle-stop tour. Since last October, traveling alone, he has spoken, rain or shine, in hundreds of cities, towns and villages from Sicily to Piedmont. In the process, his level, rasping voice has won more attention than that of any other Italian politician...
Lost Viewpoint. Virtually every major U.P. paper in the South ran Kuettner's series; South Carolina's segregationist Greenville Piedmont gave it an eight-column top-of-the-banner headline. To most editors. Al Kuettner's byline was the story's best recommendation. He has amassed 45 file drawers on racial problems since spotting desegregation as a looming battle in 1945, roamed 3,600 miles through the South in 1956 to write a series on integration that won him Sigma Delta Chi's top award for general reporting...