Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boycott started as a spectacular protest against the arrest (TIME, Jan. 16) of Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, for refusing to move from the white section of a bus. It ended soon after U.S. District Court Clerk Robert Dodson received official notice that the Supreme Court had refused a rehearing on its earlier ruling against bus segregation in Montgomery. That afternoon Police Chief G. J. Ruppenthal held a closed meeting of his 159 officers, quietly told them that desegregation would begin immediately. That night the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the levelheaded boycott leader, told his fellow Negroes...
...producer, with assets of $2 billion and ingot capacity of 20 million tons, and Youngstown Steel, sixth biggest producer (assets $574 million, ingot capacity 5.8 million tons). The Antitrust Division, which had already warned Beth Steel it would fight the plan, promptly filed suit under Section 7 of the Clayton...
Several students using the G and C Travel Plan to Chicago have faced a special inconvenience in their travelling schedules. After selling reduced rate tickets for the Saturday New England States train, the travel service earlier this week informed its customers that no special priced section will run tomorrow...
...Psycho-Acoustic section of the Psychological Laboratories, Georg von Bekesy, research fellow in Psycho-physics, is carrying on a unique investigation of the mechanical physiology of the inner ear. His extremely delicate experiments include the measurement of the pressure changes and electrical effects within the interior structure...
Contrary to usual practice, however, the sections will be conducted by full-fledged Department members, instead of section men. The problems studied will come from all branches of Social Relations...