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...frank talk won Automan Ford a cheering vote from the 2,400 shareholders, some of whom had grumbled over the drop in Ford stock from 64½ to 53½. At the close of the meeting, many of them hurried forward to shake Ford's hand. In Wilmington, Del., General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice, who is worried about FRB's tightening of credit (see box), told stockholders that sales were seriously down, but noted that higher production by other G.M. divisions-notably Electro-Motive diesel and Allison aircraft en gines-would take up some of the slack...
...streets were covered to the depth of a foot or so and for four or six weeks at a time, when oxen were roasted on the ice near the Bridge, and sleighs were as numerous on the Christiana as they have recently been in Market Street. --From the Wilmington, Delaware Courier, February...
Delaware at 12 noon, Dec. 28 in the Hotel Rodney, Wilmington; Eastern Michigan to be arranged for Dec. 28 or 29; Eastern New York at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 27 at the University Club in Albany; Indiana at 12 noon, Dec. 30 in the Indianapolis Athenaeum...
DELAWARE: Grade C. In Wilmington (pop. 110,356), 13 city schools will integrate this fall; 900 Negro students will attend formerly all-white schools, while 50 whites will attend all-Negro schools. In New Castle County (Wilmington), 14 out of 20 school boards intend to integrate. But in Kent and Sussex Counties, officials of only one (the city of Dover) out of 27 white school districts intend to heed the Supreme Court...
...commission was consistently against 1) competition between the Government and private agencies (parallel military and civilian airline routes) and 2) competition within the Government (General Services Administration and Veterans Administration warehouses side by side at Wilmington, Calif.). The commission was for continued foreign aid despite "many mistakes and waste." It urged greatly increased funds for medical and scientific research...