Word: alas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Dec. 2, you state that the town of Peaceburg, Ala., founded by Samuel T. Peace, had been purchased for use [as an] army artillery range and that "last week no one by the name of Peace was left in Peaceburg...
...problem was most acute in small towns near military posts. Local health services were often impoverished, lackadaisical; so were local police, with whom Army police must cooperate. At two extremes were respectable, aseptic Battle Creek, Mich, ("the cereal city") and dreary Phenix City, Ala. Prompted by the wealthy First Congregational Church's outspoken, realistic Rev. Carleton Brooks Miller, Battle Creek officials decided to establish segregated, supervised zones for prostitutes who swarmed in after the 20,000 soldiers at nearby Camp Custer. Unchecked, unsupervised honky-tonks in Phenix City shot up the venereal rate at Fort Benning, Ga., nine miles...
...Montgomery, Ala., the 112-year-old morning Advertiser last week took over its 52-year-old afternoon competitor, the Alabama Journal, celebrated by bringing out a joint Sunday edition. No run-of-the-mill newspaper union was this. The venerable Advertiser, known to most Montgomeryites as Grandma, is the most potent editorial voice between Atlanta and New Orleans. It cost the Advertiser's Publisher Richard Furman Hudson over $350,000 to buy out the Journal last week, made the combined papers a $1,000,000 property...
Long before Samuel T. Peace, one of Jeb Stuart's cavalrymen, moved in and gave his name to Peaceburg, Ala., the tiny hamlet tucked away among the cotton fields of Calhoun County had been a going community. Last week no one by the name of Peace was left in Peaceburg. Sadder still, Peaceburg itself was deceased. Its inhabitants had to move away because their town was needed to enlarge the maneuvering ground and artillery range for training of troops stationed at Fort McClellan near...
...tons produced in 1929's best month. It was not enough. With defense orders piling up faster than the steel could be made, the need for expansion in basic steel capacity was obvious. Biggest expansion news last week came not from steel headquarters in Pittsburgh, but from Birmingham, Ala. There, Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad will spend $20-25,000,000 for new capacity...