Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Provided he can keep his big mouth shut for the rest of the year, may I propose Mr. John Foster Dulles...
...Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro trade. Incensed at the boycott, alarmed because Tuskegee-encompassing Macon County is 84% Negro, Senator Engelhardt, officer in the lily-white Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, hatched a king-size gerrymander. Last week, by a 21,012-vote margin, Alabama voters approved...
Around the nation, there was a sprinkling of layoffs and forced "vacations"; Chrysler shut down major plants for the year's last two weeks, laid off some 60,000 workers, Ford another 35,000. As the jobless rose to about 3,700,000 in December (2,500,000 in December 1956), economists speculated that unemployment might hit 4,500,000 by midwinter...
...bulk of film comes from the newsreel archives, which started in the U.S. in 1910 and by now, except for Paramount's stubbornly locked vaults, have been raked by the networks. Ironically, it is TV itself that has put most of the newsreels out of business and thereby shut off one source for future historians in celluloid. The networks are now salting away their own voluminous news film against the day when a show like Twenty-First Century may want to picture the quaint old U.S. at the dawn of the space...
Three varsity wrestlers registered pins, two in the first period, and four others scored shut-out decisions, as only Bob Kozol at 130 lost, in a 14-8 slugfest with Engineer Jim Simmonds...