Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta enumerator rode 60 feet into the air on a block & tackle to get the dope from Flagpole-Sitter Odell Smith (address: Cloud No. 65), and one in Detroit obligingly returned three times to set down the facts about a housewife who refused to talk to him while her husband was at home. "I don't tell him anything," she explained. Another housewife urged the census taker to help her discover how much her husband earned. The man who set out to get the count in View Ridge, Wash, (wartime pop. 4,000) suffered a deep shock...
Death in the Night. One overcast night in February, aboard a regularly scheduled DC-3 which was making its approach to Atlanta, he looked out of a window and saw automobile lights so shockingly close that he felt he could touch them. A few seconds later, as he bawled at passengers to get to the rear of the cabin, the big ship smashed into a hill with a doomlike roar. When silence fell, Rickenbacker was pinned down over the body of a dead steward by the weight of wreckage...
...nation's general attitude seemed best summed up by a flustered but delighted Daughter of the Confederacy in Atlanta, Ga., who said: "I can just hardly wait to see how it comes out." The best preliminary guess: a population of 151 million people-an increase of 19 million since...
...Atlanta zoo three weeks ago, Atlanta's Forsyth Street at once became the scene of a spectacular elephant hunt. On Forsyth Street stand the modern plants of the morning Atlanta Constitution and its evening rival, the Atlanta Journal. Coca had barely stopped kicking when the Journal, biggest paper in the South (circ. 245,033), launched a Page One campaign to collect enough nickels, dimes and dollars from Atlanta's bereaved youngsters to buy a new elephant. The Constitution (circ. 180,948) in turn exhorted the kiddies to contribute to its own elephant fund...
Most Atlantans (as the Constitution calls them) and Atlantians (as the Journal calls them) were surprised at the merger; Atlanta Broker Richard W. Courts had kept the negotiations hush-hush by using code symbols instead of names. But they should not have been too surprised. In the ten years since spry old ex-Governor Cox took over the Journal, it has moved from neck & neck in circulation and advertising to undisputed first place in circulation, revenue and newspaper enterprise...