Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturers would rather go out of business than cut prices." So said an Atlanta department store manager last week, and his words echoed throughout the U.S. business community. Contrary to all the old economic laws, prices have held remarkably steady in the face of the recession; in some cases, they have actually risen...
...give everyone a chance. National Cash Register has a series of trips based on points in sales quotas. Last year 1,200 of its 3,500-man force got a free trip (with their wives), plus $25 for each point over the quota. Rich's department store in Atlanta offers monthly bonuses to all its salespeople for topping their set quotas, once or twice a year holds a King-and-Queen contest in which the leading male and female salespeople are crowned with great hoopla by Rich's President Richard H. Rich...
ANNE S. RITCHIE Atlanta...
...February day in 1955, Charles Kilpatrick, who worked for Georgia Power Co., was holding a surveyor's rod in the fenced enclosure of one of the company's substations outside Atlanta. Somehow, the rod touched a live wire carrying 11,000 volts. Kilpatrick was savagely burned and lost consciousness. Doctors at the Emory hospital doubted that he would live and it was touch and go for weeks. With third-degree burns penetrating to the bones of his lower left leg and right foot, Kilpatrick mercifully did not regain full consciousness for two weeks. By then, Surgeon William...
Into the sun parlor of Atlanta's Emory University Hospital hobbled a solidly built man, taking some of the weight off his artificial left foot with a cane. Doctors, nurses and other well-wishers burst into applause as he completed the ten-yard walk from his room. Charles C. Kilpatrick, 42, warned with a grin: "Not too loud or you'll knock me over." Unaided, he eased himself into a chair, propped his feet on another. Charlie Kilpatrick was going home to his wife and teenage son, after three years and four months in the hospital...