Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl Murphy's Baltimore Afro-American is for Willkie too. The Afro-American, really four papers, publishes in Baltimore (54,330), Washington (18,596), Philadelphia (17,159), Richmond, Va. (5,467), is read by Negroes throughout the East...
...Business School the A. Shuman scholarship went to Walter M. King 2G.B., of Richmond, Ind., and the Harvard Business School scholarships, to David B. Albright 1G.B., of Akron, O.; and James H. Gilmour 1G.B., of Detroit, Mich...
Reynolds Metals Co. of Richmond, Va.. is a rich maker of metal foil whose boss, Richard Samuel Reynolds Sr., is a nephew of the founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels). Also a fabricator of aluminum sheet, rods, tubing and extruded shapes, Reynolds Metals imported about half of its virgin aluminum from France until war interfered, has since been a reluctant Alcoa customer. Last week, having arranged to get bauxite from Dutch Guiana, Reynolds got approval of a $15,800,000 RFC loan to build ingot smelters, probably in Alabama. Ingot smelters consume electricity...
...break the Solid South again in 1940. Too soon it was to judge the practical force of Willkie sentiment stirring in the South. But there were seeds of a revolt against entrenched politics. To Wendell Willkie went hundreds of telegrams from Southern Democrats (see p. 14). In Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Willkie clubs sprang up overnight, formed by lifelong Democrats to back a Republican candidate...
...ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba, under the guns of Spain's bottled-up fleet...