Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfectly reasonable; he could hardly be blamed for failing to foresee the political consequences that would plague him later when he became President. The Russians, violating their pledge to help reunify Germany and hold democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become...
From its Hong Kong base, Jardines reached deeply into China, laid some of the country's first major rail, lines and brought in Western products in exchange for Chinese silks, spices, teas and minerals. Traders to the core, Jardines' high-living taipans made a practice of getting along with whoever was in power in China -or any part of China. During World War II. British-owned Jardines continued to make beer at its Happy Harmony Brewery in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. When the Communists came, Jardines hoped to do business with them, played an influential part in persuading London...
Died. Roy Barton White, 77, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad executive, a brakeman's son who became a telegrapher at 16, the East's youngest rail president (Jersey Central) at 43 and Western Union boss from 1933 to 1941, then took over the woebegone B. & O., after eleven years as president declared the road's first dividend in three decades and shortly moved up to the chairmanship; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...
Instead, Patterson helped set off integrationist movements that last week were spreading throughout the South. In Florida, the N.A.A.C.P. ordered a segregation test of all rail and bus facilities. In New York, CORE headquarters announced that it was sending field secretaries to New Orleans, Jackson and Montgomery. In Nashville, more students were ready to go to Jackson, where the 27 arrested Freedom Riders were fined $200 each and given suspended sentences of 60 days. At week's end, 22 of the 27 were still in jail because they refused to ante up any money...
Fight Against Fat. In the defense field, AMF is the builder of the launching silos for the Titan and Atlas ICBMs, has also developed the rail-car launching system for the solid-fueled Minuteman ICBM...