Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, populous Atlanta (331,314) has been frustrated by Georgia's archaic county-unit system, which keeps Democratic primaries and therefore state government firmly under the thumb of county woolhats. Four times suits to abolish the system have been instituted; each fizzled before the Supreme Court. Last week Atlanta's plucky Mayor William B. Hartsfield launched a determined fifth try. As Private Citizen Hartsfield, the mayor filed a Federal Court suit protesting that while Atlanta's Fulton County (pop. 473,572) contains 14% of Georgia's population, the county-unit system allows it only...
...last week. Other newspapers from Seattle to Savannah were doing their unlevel best to bull their way through one of the nation's biggest-and most botched-running stories: the recession. Though more than 50.000 workers are out of jobs in Georgia's four largest cities, the Atlanta Journal has zealously kept the state's slump off the front page, and, until last week, even banned the word recession from the paper...
...other statistics that are normally buried on the business page. Scripps-Howard's Memphis Press-Scimitar last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off. In Atlanta, the Journal suppressed the news of a layoff of 2,000 Lockheed Aircraft workers last fall until it could report that the factory had found other jobs for some of them. The paper drew criticism from Federal Reserve officials for another story cramming a pack of upbeat department-store sales...
Before the White House announced its antirecession program last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Federal Reserve Board aimed another and more familiar counterpunch at the recession. For the third time in four months, FRB cut the discount rate. Reserve banks in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Atlanta reduced the rate from 2¾% to 2¼%. Most of the other eight central reserve banks will soon follow; the cuts are expected to lead to lower interest rates to boost loans and business expansion...
...Which has such serious delinquency problems as vandalism, theft and knife-carrying in some of its all-white schools. In Atlanta, of 3,7°° juveniles who appeared before the courts in 1957, S°% were white...