Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers have surprised most retailers," said Executive Vice President Peter J. Stelling of Atlanta's J. P. Allen & Co. Allen's August sales raced 15% ahead of last year, on top of the best July in its 50-year history. Across the U.S., many another retailer was also pleasantly surprised. Merchandise managers of Southern California's Broadway, Bullock's and J. W. Robinson department stores reported that August sales exceeded all their expectations. Said President Arthur L. Kramer Jr. of Dallas' A. Harris & Co.: "Our first fall fashions were snapped up so fast that...
...Reserve continued to tighten credit by selling Treasury bills, brought net free reserves down to $306 million, lowest since February and almost $300 million under the $600 million of early July. The Fed also approved a discount rate boost from 1¾% to 2% for the Kansas City and Atlanta banks...
...youngsters falter, Milwaukee's fabulous farms are ready with still more hot prospects. Best of the lot: a pair of 22-year-olds at Wichita, Lefthander Vic Rehm (11-5, ERA 2.87) and Righthander Don Nottebart (4-7, ERA 4.50); and two southpaws at the Class AA Atlanta farm, Bob Hartman, 20 (18-9, ERA 2.55), and Ken MacKenzie, 24 (12-7, ERA 3.36). But Manager Haney thinks that he has all the varsity pitching he needs right now. Says he of his four young pitchers: "Each one pitches a helluva game every time out. They're real...
...Virgin Islands Senate with the largest popular vote given a Senator-at-large. By last December he took the No. 2 post in the administration as Government Secretary, showed a steady hand at finance, revamped the tax program and the Alcohol Control Board. Seven weeks ago, when Atlanta-born Negro Walter A. Gordon stepped out of the governorship after two years, eight months and into a $22,500-a-year federal judgeship, Merwin replaced him as acting Governor. His confirmation by the U.S. Senate to the $19,000-a-year post seems certain...
Explorer IV was fired northeast from Cape Canaveral, its course shaving Cape Hatteras and passing just to the east of New England, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The earlier Explorers, fired somewhat south of due east, never came farther north than the latitude of Atlanta, but Explorer IV reaches 51° north. As the earth turns inside its orbit, it will pass over most of western Europe, southern Russia (but not Moscow), all of the U.S. and Japan, most of China, all of the tropics and most of the land in the Southern Hemisphere except Antarctica...