Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season, when Tech had a particularly strong eleven, the schedule included a game with Clemson, a weak sister that year. The Atlanta gamblers spotted Clemson 35 points. Alex heard about it, played the entire game with his B team, and eked out a 7-to-0 victory. The gamblers lost their shirts, but none of their respect for Coach Alex...
...oldest Sunday supplement in the South has a new dress: the Atlanta Journal ("Covers Dixie like the dew") has a bright new four-color magazine section, designed to make Journal readers forget the charms of pseudo-science and warmed-over scandal...
...five years the Journal has included Hearst's lurid American Weekly, in addition to its own stodgy supplement. In 1939, James M. Cox (the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1920) bought the home-owned Atlanta Journal to keep, and Hearst's Atlanta Georgian-American to kill. To get the Hearst paper, he promised to keep using the American Weekly for five years, with all advertising revenue going to Hearst. Last week the deal...
...Dealing Atlanta Constitution thundered: "OPA has . . . broken faith with the American people...
...Krug halted the production of cotton yarn for civilian needs. Manufacture of upholstery and drapery material, chenille bedspreads and dishmops, would make way for an Army rush order of eight million pounds of cotton duck a month, to meet a shortage of Army tents. The Fourth Service Command in Atlanta furloughed 1,000 former textile workers now in uniform to return to the looms and turn out cotton duck. They will receive factory wages, in addition to regular Army...