Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were 53% ahead of last year; retail sales, on the other hand, have been running only 18% above a year ago. Retailers stocked up in anticipation of more scare buying, which did not develop. Unless buying picks up, many will be forced to trim prices to unload. Said one Atlanta retailer: "The test will come after Easter...
...promotion lists, 2) asked to quit their outfits (just about impossible) or start breaking in replacements. In Dalton, Ga., a young National Guard corporal had just been offered a better job. He inadvertently mentioned the Guard. "Whoa, just a moment," snapped the interviewer, and called off the deal. In Atlanta, a sergeant in the Air Force Reserve hunted fruitlessly for weeks before he found a job chopping wood to feed his wife & child...
...Authorized the state attorney general to break up any city newspaper monopoly-merger since 1945. Four Georgia mergers fitted this description, but the biggest, most obvious targets were the joint-owned Atlanta Constitution and Journal (TIME, March 27), both incisive critics of the Talmadge regime...
...POROHOVSHIKOV Atlanta...
...Atlanta's Rich's Inc.,which usually does not start buying fall goods until May, has already bought up half its supply of wool clothing, blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...