Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate?mistrusted by farmers (Kennedy declared himself opposed to high price supports back in 1955), widely mistrusted by Negroes, vulnerable to Republican charges of absenteeism (he had missed nearly 80% of the Senate roll-call votes since the session began in January). Johnson tried hard to argue down the Northern Democrats' two main objections to his own candidacy: i) he is too conservative to be acceptable to labor and eggheads, and 2) as a Southerner he would alienate the Negro vote...
...jerry-built but air-conditioned hotels. And like tribalists all over Africa, Somalis were talking ambitiously of redrawing the borders imposed by the white men to reunite their fellow tribesmen. Over the years, as their own land eroded, Somalis have settled thickly in the fertile regions of northern Kenya and eastern Ethiopia. Besides these areas, Greater Somalia would also include French Somaliland and its deep-water port of Djibouti. But however desirable from the Somali point of view, the plan was not likely to make for cordial relations with Somalia's neighbors...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY of $6,000,000 will be paid for one year by New Jersey to railroads to help overcome losses on commuter services in northern N.J. Pennsylvania and Lackawanna will each receive $1,600,000, Jersey Central $1,300,000; rest will go to others joining plan. $100 REBATE will be given to any one of Studebaker-Packard's 200,000 shareholders who buys a 1960 Lark, Hawk or Champ truck in July, August or September. Deal, first in auto industry history, is expected to boost Studebaker's lagging sales...
...mineral treasure house of the southeast Congo, where the Bemba and the Tshokwe tribesmen flow over into parts of Northern Rhodesia and Angola, irredentist sentiment runs high among some black leaders. Moise Tshombe, boss of copper-rich Katanga province, talks of negotiating with the Northern Rhodesians and his Conakat Party has begun organizing branches in Northern Rhodesia itself...
...Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway-which cross the continent from Seattle to St. Paul on almost parallel routes-last week announced that they are close to a firm agreement to merge. A combination of the two roads, bitter rivals in the days of the empire builders, would produce a system with 17,492 miles of track, the longest in the U.S. The two roads' revenue last year amounted to $778 million, second only to the Pennsylvania's. Included in the merger would be the railroads controlled by the two lines: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1959 revenues...