Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only thing the two had in common was that both were working on nuclear-powered craft, one in submarines and the other in airplanes. One of the earliest and biggest diversifiers was Glidden Co., from paints into such products as sex hormones and oleomargarine. Locomotive-building H. K. Porter Co., convinced that the locomotive market was running out of steam, bought up 15 companies in eleven years, now makes steel, industrial rubber and oilfield equipment. Its sales have soared from $8 million to $64 million...
Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Soprano Dorothy Warenskjold singing selections from Bizet, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern...
...Miss Lennie Green, 41, a Negro, daughter of a Pullman porter and a seamstress. As a child she fell in love with Latin and music, eventually won her master's at Atlanta University with a thesis on the letters of Pliny the Younger. An accomplished pianist, violinist and violist. Miss Green now teaches music at Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School, also gives piano lessons at home. Over the years she has set hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother...
While he was trying to find out why, Reporter Simms got an anonymous telephone tip: "They [stole] 600 votes for Porter on one of the county totals." Simms found that in Jefferson County Porter's total had indeed been changed from the announced 23,060 to 23,660. On the official tally sheets, he found that "ones had been changed to sevens, zeros to sixes and sevens to nines." Simms promptly wrote a story charging vote fraud, and put it on the wire...
After hearing testimony from Simms and his day editor, Stanley Atkins, who had also seen the altered vote sheets, the grand jury indicted two pro-Porter politicos: Russell County Solicitor Arch Ferrell (who said he was innocent), and Chairman Lamar Reid of Jefferson County's Democratic Executive Committee (who would make no statement...