Word: woolworths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, he picketed the Belmont Woolworth's in 1960 and taught Negro history in a freedom school during last June's school boycott. He also helped to found the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity (ESCRU) and served as a consultant for several Southern school boards considering integration...
...Harry Blair Cunningham, 56, president of S.S. Kresge Co. The gamble seems to be paying off: last week Kresge opened four more of its K-Marts, raising the total of its discount branches to 61 out of a chain of 876 stores. Detroit-based Kresge still ranks behind Woolworth...
Even if Yama triumphs, there are other sure losers in the picture. The 33-year-old Empire State Building will no longer be able to call itself (with 102 floors, 1,248 ft.) the tallest building in the world,* will join such other has-beens as the Singer, the Woolworth and the Chrysler buildings. And one of Manhattan's beaux-arts monuments, the splendid old U.S. Customs House, designed in 1901 by Cass Gilbert, will lose its identity-and possibly its existence-as all customs operations are shifted to the World Trade Center. Progress in New York moves onward...
...huge holding company that controls a $6.5 billion rail and financial empire, those who did not know him well thought that he might retire to his 27-room mansion and clip coupons. After all, Kirby, now 71, was already worth at least $250 million through major holdings in Woolworth, I.T. & T., Phillips Petroleum, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and the New York Central Railroad. But Kirby is as stubborn as he is rich. He began a battle to regain control of Alleghany from the men who had wrested it from him, Texas Millionaire Brothers John Murchison, 41, and Clint...
Stirred by Kennedy and Southern sit-ins, collegians plunged into "involve-mentism." Some picketed Woolworth stores; others ran high-powered colloquiums like Yale's "Challenge" and Princeton's "Response." Berkeley liberals got washed down the steps of San Francisco's city hall while protesting the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Campus conservatives appeared everywhere, held a monster rally in New York's Madison Square Garden...