Word: youngstowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road. In Youngstown, Ohio, after being released on $500 bond to await trial for drunken driving. Earle Stone decided to jump bail, bought a bus ticket for Henderson, N.C.. faced his trial when he wandered into a bar to kill time before the bus departed, hoisted too many, got arrested for drunkenness...
...Bill Jenner. He linked his demand for an end to H-bomb tests with his proposals to end the draft: "We don't want our boys to be drafted," he said at Akron. "We don't want to live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud." At Youngstown. before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 10,000, he devoted a full-dress speech to military manpower. The gist: the draft, with its rapid manpower turnover, is wasteful, needlessly expensive and unsuited to an "age of complex new weapons and new military needs." His suggested alternative: a corps...
Naturally, steel was hardest hit by the 35-day strike. Youngstown Sheet & Tube's earnings dropped to $3,381,000 in the '56 third quarter from $11,240,677 a year ago, while Crucible Steel's net tumbled from $2,752,293 to $510,226. Nevertheless, Crucible's net for the first nine months stood at $8,597,020, only a little less than last year's, and Youngstown's three-quarters figure totaled $24,904,000 v. $29,247,179 last year. Last week, as autos, freight cars, tankers, schools and heavy construction...
...unidentified man urged him to get in and be taken to the airport so he could lie low in Florida. He got in, but managed to leap out safely when the car kept going in the wrong direction. Then the hoodlum fled to a hideout in Youngstown, Ohio. In July Telvi returned to New York, but he was still "too hot." A few days later, in a lower East Side street, police found his body, apparently dumped from a car, with a bullet wound in the back of the head...
Local Reaction. The shutdown choked off the vast weight that the steel industry pours daily into the U.S. economy: 250,000 tons of steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...