Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Package Deal. In Atlanta, the Jack Salmon (Realty) Co. advertised in the Constitution: "Beautiful Estate . . . Astounding Value, including two wonderful maids and other interesting features . . . can be seen any time...
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...Alien B. Du Mont) and WRGB (Dr. W.R.G. Baker of General Electric). Some stations go in for slogans: the Chicago Tribune has long called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper," and its radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...
...population is growing at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, and, even without that growth, big markets are still to be tapped. Of America's 45 million families, 35% still do not own a car, only 12% own home freezers, only 2% an air conditioner. Said Atlanta Investment Banker Richard Courts: "We have mastered production, but we have not yet mastered consumption." Among the mass-production goals...
...wanted to be outdone. Shoppers in Chicago, San Francisco, Manhattan and Atlanta saw some of the best-illustrated in color on the opposite page. In Dallas, a $35,000 display of art masterpieces - including 15th century French stone angels, a 16th century Dutch painting of the Madonna and Christ Child-was borrowed from a Manhattan dealer and displayed by A. Harris & Co. After the fine art, shoppers could move on to Neiman-Marcus and see a $25,000 display of cherubs joyfully clanging cymbals and playing games under a pastel...