Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years to delay obeying a federal court's orders to desegregate city schools, which are roughly 60% black, the school board last week voted to sell some 28 vacant school buildings and 20 parcels of land to raise $2.5 million to buy 80 buses-enough to transport 8,500 of the city's junior high school students. To add to the school board's problems, its 27-year-old president, John E. Gallagher Jr., was convicted in municipal court last week of disturbing the peace. While riding in a car on a highway southwest of the city...
...devout Muslims headed for Mecca on the annual hajj (pilgrimage). A plea by religious leaders failed to get the workers back on the job to enable the pilgrims "to perform their religious duties toward Allah." The Shah himself stepped in and ordered the Imperial Air Force to transport the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Parents were growing impatient with the school closings, even if their offspring were not. Many schoolchildren took to the streets to join demonstrators and carry placards. It was, allowed eight-year-old Ali Safavi, more fun than "attending boring classes...
...example, the real inaugural ball for the new building was held a week before the dedication. This blow-out featured almost 400 students, faculty and staff members rocking out to great music and enjoying student DJs, light shows, a hand-held camera to transport dancing bodies to the Forum's giant TV screen, movies and cartoons, free beer and soft drinks, a bubble machine, and so forth. It certainly wasn't "elitist," although we couldn't invite the whole University to join...
...extended vertical integration to wheat. He was miffed because the operators of a country elevator refused to buy part of his crop when he judged the price to be right, but told him to wait several weeks while they worked out storage and transport snarls. Benedict got nine other growers together to put up $1.5 million, buy an elevator and incorporate it as Northern Grain...
They were the first women to take assignments on Navy vessels other than hospital ships or transport...