Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teach there again. Her excellent 21-year teaching record was far outweighed by her act of allowing one of her pupils, a nine-year-old white boy, to ride home in a Negro school bus because the white bus had already left and her own car had a flat tire...
...first string midfielders will be Dick Parks, Dave Birch, and Karl Bjork, with Manuel Cabral, John Gould, and Jerry Cotter ready to take over when the starters tire. The attackmen will be Dub Mallonee, Jerry Pyle, and either Fran Loewald or Nick Lamont...
Thiokol sales have gone from $4,800,000 in 1951 to last year's $31 million, which brought net profits of $1,452,000 (but still far behind the $162 million sales of its chief competitor. General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet-General Corp.). Though Thiokol's first-quarter sales are off a bit because some of its military contracts ran out and one plant was damaged by fire, Thiokol expects a 50% gain for all of calendar 1958. Reason: solid fuels are far simpler and safer to handle than liquid fuels that require a maze...
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...
...Lucy are sole owners, there is no lag at Desilu when he decides to make a deal. He beat two major bidders for the RKO studios when he strolled off a Lucy set one day last fall and made a phone call nailing down the purchase from General Tire & Rubber Co., RKO's owner since 1955, for a bargain $6,150,000. Desi usually spends ten hours a day at work, chauffeurs himself in his black Thunderbird from the Beverly Hills mansion where he and Lucy live with their two children, Lucie Desirée, 6, and Desi...