Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-robed figure scrambled selfconsciously to the courthouse lawn with a pesthole digger. Four more, grunting quite humanly, lugged up a big kerosene-drenched cross. One touched a match to it. As the flames shot up, a green-robed man-Atlanta Physician Samuel Green, Georgia's Grand Dragon-stepped into the light...
Hoopee. Collapsible plastic hoops that can be slipped into full-skirted evening dresses to turn them into hoop skirts will go on sale soon in Atlanta department stores. The name: "Bell o' the Ball." The price...
...visitor would hardly have guessed that it was the tenth annual convention of the National Cotton Council of America. In the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel last week, a huge banner carried the legend: "Why Is Margarine Singled Out for Discrimination? No Other Product Is." And much of the talk among the 800 cotton men was of margarine. The reason: margarine, made chiefly of cottonseed oil, is worth $80 million a year to cotton planters. Planters thought that they could easily sell twice as much cottonseed oil if only Congress would repeal the high tax, lobbied through by dairy farmers...
...Atlanta, four teen-agers went on a spree, released the brakes of some 24 cars just to watch them careen downhill and crash...
...Manhattan, ski-nosed Comedienne Bea Lillie ended her day at RCA Victor's big, bare Studio 2 just two minutes before midnight. She did her own offbeat version of Atlanta, a number from Inside U.S.A., a musical show that won't hit Broadway until March...