Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second straight year in North Carolina, a handful of handpicked (for top grades, social graces) Negro schoolchildren went to classes with whites-two in Charlotte, four in Winston-Salem. five in Greensboro-in Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges' plan to permit a little integration in order to stave off a lot. Last week, unlike last year, there was little violence. In Winston-Salem a couple of Ku Klux crosses were burned on a high school lawn, 200 out of 600 white students were transferred out of an integrated elementary school at parents' requests. One measure of North Carolina...
Word leaked out that the Department of Transport has a well-advanced plan to build the free world's first atom-driven icebreaker. To displace 7,000 tons, the craft will have almost twice the power of a diesel-engined vessel, probably cost around $40 million, three times more than Canada's diesel-powered icebreaker Labrador. To build the new ship, Canada will need help from the U.S., but since a Canadian icebreaker would be a major addition to joint U.S.-Canadian forces in the Arctic, Canadian planners expect Washington to give all technical assistance-and a hearty...
COSTLIER AIR TRAVEL is in the wind. American Airlines, nation's biggest, has petitioned CAB to end first-class roundtrip discounts, reduce family-plan discounts from 50% to 33⅓% effective...
...carrying out a master plan for a balanced company, Litton now has a healthy sales split of 45% military, 55% commercial. Yet Thornton, is the first to admit that "we have a long way to go"-and that the road ahead will be slippery. Though Litton's profits reached $3,700,000 in the last fiscal year, they have yet to live up to the price of his highly touted, fast-rising stock, now selling at 56^-or 26 times earnings. The competition in the industry is growing so rough that competitors still question whether Litton is strong enough...
...shows that flimsy, cheap toys are the best way to lose a market. We are now working to make toys more durable, safer, and at the same time more advanced than foreign makes." U.S. Toymaker Louis Marx is giving the industry a hand, recently went to Japan with a plan to reorganize the entire Japanese toy industry by supplying U.S. technicians, leasing machines, supplying designs and working out a "division of labor" between Japanese and U.S. firms...