Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama Scrap...
...TIME [July 13] in an article on scrap rubber collections, the statement was made: "States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia." The facts of the matter are that Alabama's collection during the June 15~July 10 drive totaled some 18,098,811 lb.-a per capita average of 6.39 lb. As in many other States, county salvage committee reports were slow in coming in, but the results were there. Your article, I believe, did an injustice to Alabama, however unintentional. In fairness, allow...
...Under Alabama's sun the first Negro fighter squadron in the world was training last week in circumstances which might have exasperated...
...Dearborn last week visiting his good friend Henry Ford, Alabama's famed Negro Scientist George Washington Carver inaugurated a new food laboratory, chatted about the possibility of Michigan-raised rubber, gladly munched (with Industrialist Ford) a sandwich made of weeds, which he had prepared...
...Huie, now associate editor of the American Mercury, has written one of the best novels about the "Roosevelt Generation," might have written a better one if he were not so close to his subject. As a rudely realistic story of what has happened to the Tennessee Valley and to Alabama under the New Deal, his novel is an exciting footnote to current history...