Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [May 27] . . . states that "25,000 almost-new passenger cars were rusting and rotting in an Atlanta depot," and that the Army had "reluctantly" given up 7,000 of them under pressure of publicity...
Before the war criminals have been tried, and while America preaches its doctrines of democracy to a war-weary world . . . the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta, Ga. can advertise publicly, attract a crowd of 2,000, and gain 500 new initiates [TIME, May 20]. How can the fiery cross be considered in any other light than as a home-grown swastika, when it stands for the promotion of racial supremacy...
...down the railroad systems of the Eastern Seaboard, the same silence. Acres of freight cars, brooding herds of grimy locomotives stood in quiet rail yards at Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Jersey City. At dusk, signal lights glowed green along thousands of miles of rail. The tracks were clear-and empty...
...York is thrilled. Boston is breathless. Chicago is lusty. Atlanta is seething. Dallas is intense. San Francisco is carried away. Philadelphia is exhilarated. St. Louis is hypnotised...
When they announced their plan in Atlanta newspapers, over 800 veterans showed up, 100 agreed to invest $1,000 each and to work in the factory. In addition, each one agreed to borrow $1,750 under the G.I. Bill, thus give the new company, U.S. Homes, Inc., $275,000 in capital...