Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eager Beaver. In Atlanta, Mosky Yalovitz absentmindedly placed his new $12.50 hat on a counter in his own store, later discovered that an eager clerk had sold it for a buck...
...various firms and businesses for practical training. After a four week session, the girls will get "humble positions" in nearby firms "as a sort of shakedown cruise." Twelve weeks later, following further studies, they will have more responsible adminstrative duties in firms sometimes as distant as Cleveland or Atlanta...
...announcing that "Pearson has attacked [the Ku Klux Klan] in radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. He was immediately . . . threatened with injury to life and limb should he set foot in [Georgia]. . . Mr. Pearson will deliver this Sunday's broadcast from the steps of the State capitol in Atlanta. . . . Mr. Pearson's life [has been insured] for One Million Dollars for the benefit of his family." Pearson kept his Rendezvous With Death, denounced the Klan before some 2,000 Georgians, who booed, heckled, sometimes cheered-and showed no interest whatsoever in Pearson's well-protected person...
...succeed himself. One hundred thousand Negroes, voting in a Democratic primary for the first time in their lives, were solidly behind him. The kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers of the state, all wanted him. But by a tragic quirk of an archaic elective system, Eugene Talmadge, not James Carmichael, yesterday captured the Democratic nomination for governor of the State of Georgia...
...Atlanta Ordnance Depot is one of several depots that receive vehicles for repairs. They are stored in open fields since there is not enough undercover storage to meet the requirements. About 31,000 vehicles of all types are stored there at present, including trucks, passenger cars and motorcycles. At the present time there are 525 passenger cars there, of which 48 are in serviceable condition. The balance of 477 cars are unserviceable and require varying amounts of repair work...