Word: stinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot tolerate or ignore this violence; in the name of Darlene Rogers, Desiree Etheridge, Daryal Hargett, Caren Prater, Gwendolyn Stinson, Andrea Foye, Christine, Ricketts, and those who knew and loved them, as well as those who fear for their own lives, we demand renewed and unceasing efforts by the police and informed individuals to find and convict the murderers of these women...
...morning brings a fresh set of problems. An ore carrier called the George Stinson is downbound. Known unaffectionately as "Gorgeous George," the Stinson is a recently built 1,000-ft.-long Goliath of the lakes. Gorgeous she isn't; unmanageable she is. Says a company skipper who has been on the lakes since 1936: "Those thousand footers don't belong up here." Hall further defines the problem. "They need a lot of power to avoid getting stuck. But if they come barreling around the turns full bore, they wind up in the trees...
...PAST month and a half, six young black women have been found murdered near their homes in the Roxbury and South End areas. Four of the women, Christine Ricketts, age 15, Andrea Foye, age 17, Gwendoyln Yvette Stinson, age 15, and Caren Prater, age 25, were found within eight days of each other. At first, the murders received little attention from the media and the police. Gwen Stinson's mother notified local police when she became aware of her daughter's uncharacteristic absence. When they failed to respond to her plea for assistance, Mrs. Stinson contacted as many newspapers...
More important, COWPS Chairman Barry Bosworth and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss got on the phone to heads of other steel companies, urging them not to follow the U.S. Steel increase. Strauss, who is becoming increasingly influential in the Administration, made the key call to National Steel Chairman George Stinson. National then posted a price rise of only $5.50 a ton, which COWPS pronounced "acceptable." The smaller increase was quickly matched by several other companies, including Bethlehem Steel, No. 2 in the industry, without whose support U.S. Steel cannot make the bigger raise stick. For the record, U.S. Steel vowed...
...course, there was more going on in the state that houses Stokette's and Dollar Bill Stinson than simply bananas and beer chugging and wet tee-shirts and if this whole thing sounds sexist, well, then...