Word: scimitars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME stated that the Memphis Press-Scimitar "last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off." The only recent Press-Scimitar story about possible Firestone expansion in Memphis was printed in the Press-Scimitar on Nov. 19, 1957. Raymond C. Firestone, company president, on a visit to Memphis, was asked by a Press-Scimitar reporter if the company planned any expansion in Memphis in 1958. He replied:'"We have expanded the Memphis plant every year...
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Buried Statistics. Determined not to see the clouds for the silver lining, many editors are solicitously pumping up buoyant bulletins on building permits, bank deposits, airline travel, and other statistics that are normally buried on the business page. Scripps-Howard's Memphis Press-Scimitar last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off. In Atlanta, the Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed Aircraft workers last fall until it could report that...
...secret is out. Saud gave Ike a scimitar in a lavishly jeweled scabbard. Ike gave Saud an original painting of a Colorado landscape by a well-known amateur artist, bearing the initials D.D.E. in its corner, plus a desk...
Scampering aboard a plane in Los Angeles, impulsive Judy Spreckels, 24, ex-wife of Sugar Daddy Adolph B. Spreckels Jr., was soon in Memphis and the offices of the daily Press-Scimitar. She had learned that a photograph, made last month in Las Vegas, showing her with dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("Hi luh-huh-huh-huv-huv yew-hew") Presley, 21, had appeared in the newspaper, and she had hopped to Tennessee to buy some copies of that edition. Was she in luh-huh-huh-huv with Presley (TIME, May 14)? "Oh, no, he's too young," cooed Judy...