Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brolly is an abominable Briticism for umbrella (and tiddly is a short beer...
...stick bomb had been found attached to a damped-out fuse in the window well of a downtown synagogue. These three brought to 45 the South's bomb count since January 1957. Most of the attacks have been against Negroes, but. for the first time since a short-lived 1951 outbreak in Miami, the South's spare Jewish population (less than 1%) was suffering directly from the redneck dogma that integration is a Jewish plot. Since last November, bombs have landed at six Jewish centers and synagogues...
Caldwell, though, hasn't sold his soul to Hollywood, or anything else. Writing is his living, and professionalism doesn't appear to have changed his approach. He's done thirty novels, a number of short stories, and one movie. He doesn't seem anxious to do many more, unless they're from his own novels, and he is only asked to supervise...
...SALARY CUTS are on way to offset current $200,000 monthly deficit caused by auto layoffs. Salaries of President Walter Reuther ($22,000) and 24 other executives will be slashed 10% ; some 100 staffers will be laid off. Big worry: U.A.W. now has $24 million in strike fund, far short of $50 million goal set for early June, when auto contracts will have expired...
Railroaders found the program far short of what they need to prevent what Pennsylvania President James M. Symes calls "the collapse of some railroads." Last week, as further evidence of their dire straits, the New York Central showed a first-quarter loss of $17.6 million, the Pennsylvania lost $14.9 million. Even railmen still in the black were disappointed, believing that the need is for ways to increase earning power. "The real problem," said Ben Heineman. chairman of the Chicago & North Western, "is one of allowing us to attain a position where we can pay back the loans...