Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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's small steps: Rabble-Rouser John Kasper of New Jersey got booed and heckled in Charlotte, saw his audience of 200 dwindle by boredom to 25 in Greensboro, got drowned out by a man operating a power saw (on Labor Day) in nearby Monroe, did not go to Winston-Salem...
...Nationalist-held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, President Eisenhower came to a decision never publicly announced: U.S. force would be used to help fight off invasion of Quemoy and Matsu by Red China. Last week, with shout and shell raining again (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. saw Quemoy and Matsu as being of even greater importance than in 1954. Said the President at press conference: the Nationalists now have one-third of their strength deployed on the offshore islands, and loss of that strength would lay Formosa itself more open to invasion...
...doorway, and I felt something sharp cut into my arm. My husband and his friend were on the ground with a pile of colored men on them. A taxi swerved onto the pavement and scattered the blackies. When my husband got up he was holding his back, and I saw there was a knife...
...night last week, an Aero Commander two-engine plane outran a pursuing government DC-3. Then, its gas gone, the plane tried to glide into the nearby U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo and nosed into the nearby bay. Watchers at the base's radar screen saw it vanish-another mystery of the cloak-and-dagger Cuban civil...
What the shorts got caught in was a war for control, which saw almost all the company's stock taken out of circulation. Originally, the shorts had sold at a price of about $42, expecting the stock to decline because book value and earnings indicated a price closer to $30 a share. They guessed wrong. Trying to oust the Bruce family management, which owns 31% of the 314,600 shares outstanding, New York Manufacturer Edward Gilbert and his associates began buying, sent the price to $77 by June. More than 280,000 shares were traded, including at least...