Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELBERT PARR TUTTLE, 55, Atlanta tax lawyer and post-convention Republican state chairman, to be general counsel (head of the Legal Division) of the Treasury Department. Tuttle's high-domed head and earnest oratory came to the attention of several million U.S. televiewers during last summer's Republican National Convention, when he sparked the Georgia pro-Eisenhower delegation's dramatic and successful fight against the claims of the rival pro-Taft delegation. Tuttle had been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under...
...August, Director Alexander Langmuir of the U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service got an alarming phone call in his Atlanta office. It was from the California Department of Public Health. Three of the Camp Fire Girls had come down with malaria, and there was no telling how many more of the 1,500 might have been infected. Somebody had to check all the families and warn hundreds of doctors who normally would never suspect malaria in an area which has been free of it for a dozen years. But the state's health officials were already swamped with work from...
...Southern cities. He has been rapidly expanding his routes ever since. In the last five years. Delta's net has jumped from $200,000 to $1,650,000. The deal with Chicago & Southern will give him a network stretching from Detroit, Chicago and Kansas City to New Orleans, Atlanta and Miami...
...fulfill its world role, the U.S. has to maintain a high level of business stability and prosperity at home. Despite some year-end talk of a late 1953 recession, most businessmen are bullish. Said one of the South's foremost bankers, Chairman John A. Sibley of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia: "Businessmen have more confidence in the future than they have had in a generation. They will be willing to take more risks with the possibility of earning better returns." Arms-spending is still on the rise, and when it reaches its peak in 1953, it will...
...mortgages at 4¼ and 4%, rates now too low to attract much bank money. The realtors were all in favor of FHA and veteran loan guarantees, but they thought that interest rates should be set on a flexible, regional basis rather than one rate across the nation. Said Atlanta Realtor Henry H. Robinson: if VA interest rates were allowed to rise, "Expect a terrific boom in G.I. home construction...