Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your March 17 Press section tries to condemn the Atlanta Journal's recession coverage ... 1) TIME says "The Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed workers last fall until it could report that the factory had found other jobs for some of them." Lockheed announced the layoff August 15. We printed it August 15, under a three-column headline. We printed it again August 30. It was four months later . . . that we carried our first story on the factory finding other jobs for them. 2) TIME says the Journal, until last week, "even banned...
JAMES STERN Atlanta...
...Georgians expect Bill Hartsfield to have better success than earlier pleaders. But Georgians do believe that the county-unit system will eventually be defeated. The state's population is flowing from farm to city; growing cities-Macon, Augusta, Savannah, etc.-are beginning to suffer what Atlanta has suffered for 60 years at the hands of county legislators. When the cities agitate together, the wool-hats' reign may be doomed at last...
...Pulitzer Prize (in 1939 for exposing a WPA scandal in Kentucky), a raft of other awards through the decades, and the respect of his colleagues as a skillful reporter who does not let his admitted bias as "an old-fashioned progressive" keep him from playing fair. Last week Atlanta-born Tom Stokes won a rare new tribute. His column, which appears in 105 dailies, has not appeared since Jan. 3. It was a casualty of the illness that sent Stokes to the hospital last month for a brain operation. Back from the hospital but still bedded indefinitely, he learned that...
...North. Texas unemployment is up to 5.7% of the labor force, yet retail sales are running 2% ahead of last year, and the University of Texas' index of business activity is 1% ahead of 1957. Department-store sales are down slightly, mainly because of bad weather. But at Atlanta's hard-selling Rich's department store, sales are even with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief...