Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming...
Under these laws, without court pressure, three cities (Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro) integrated the Deep South's first eleven Negro pupils in the fall...
...White House announced that Sir Winston Churchill will make an "informal" U.S. visit with Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower next month. The trip was postponed a year ago after Sir Winston came down with pneumonia. Earlier last week Cigar Chomper Churchill, about to fly home to England from the French Riviera, jauntily puffed on a cigarette, a rare indulgence for him, but he was back on big black stogies by the time he reached London Airport...
Shouted Down. Where the U.S. consumer reigns, the gains were most striking. U.S. smokers, puffing away at a record rate, upped both sales and profits of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) and P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Newport, Old Gold), both of whose stockholders approved stock splits to make room for further growth. When a stockholder tried to ask a few critical questions of Reynolds Chairman John C. Whitaker, other stockholders were already so taken with the good news that they stamped their feet, shouted the dissenter down...
...fanatic army colonel, Fadhil Mahdawi, rants against the "traitors" in the dock. Press censorship is now in the hands of an army veterinarian, Colonel Loutfi Tahir, who fills the newspapers with Red propaganda. Last week Iraqi authorities expelled three U.S. correspondents-TIME's William McHale, CBS's Winston Burdett, U.P.I.'s Larry Collins-on short notice, and Kassem's office said he was helpless to save them...