Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours of the court's decision, three loaded ore boats sailed out of Duluth harbor for the steel centers; within two hours maintenance workers began heating up coke ovens in Pittsburgh. By midweek the first pig iron would pour down white-hot from ten-story-high blast furnaces, thence become raw steel within less than 24 hours, bars and sheets within a week or so. Despite these quick reactions, the injunction was little more than an 80-day aspirin for an economy aching for a real cure of the steel crisis...
...surprising response. Fifteen percent of the unskilled workers (against 11% in May), 16% of the skilled workers (18% in May), and 20% of the farmers (no change) said they prefer the Republicans. But the biggest change of heart was taking place in the ranks of the white-collar workers and among business and professional people. The results...
...White-Collar Workers...
Accused of raping a pregnant white woman, Parker was abducted by 15 to 20 masked men only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired...
...boosted its strength in the 120-member Knesset from 40 to at least 47 seats, a gain the campaign manager himself had ruled out beforehand as "impossible." "The fight of the 20 against one has ended with the complete failure of the 20," crowed Ben-Gurion. His nimbus of white hair awhirl, the old (73) warrior jubilantly raised a glass of vermouth, proclaimed his victory toast: "To life...