Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman finally succeeded in taking Atlanta. After surveying his well-equipped army in the Georgia city, he proposed a bold plan which he thought would be so destructive to military resources and civilian morale that the exhausted Confederates would throw up the sponge and end the Civil War. In November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they...
...enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging that it permitted planes to fly too low, endangering him. and annoying him by the dust they stirred up. He lost the case. And in the same year a similar suit was dismissed in Pennsylvania with the ruling: "Invasions of the air space are trespass only when they interfere...
During 33 years with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he became one of the two or three prime U. S. authorities on utility depreciation. For ten years he was first vice president and treasurer of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Atlanta. Now in his eleventh year as executive assistant to the Stock Exchange Committee on Stock List, Mr. Hoxsey leads a meticulously rational life. Before taking up contract four years ago he made a close study of all the systems, decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered...
Meanwhile another branch of the University hierarchy is combing the woods for the snatch artist who broke into the door before it was fixed. Microscopic work on the picture reveal that both the coat and sweater that are visible were purchased in a Southern city, probably Atlanta, Georgia, and it is claimed that the culprit is already known and can save himself several years if he will give himself up quietly...
...Flint plant which makes Chevrolet motors would force closing, whether workers had struck or not, of Chevrolet assembly and parts plants in Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.; Toledo and Norwood, Ohio; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Janesville, Wis.; Oakland, Calif.; Buffalo and Tarrytown, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Bloomfield...