Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Corpse. The big change came with express-train momentum, but it was a long time getting started. The plight of the old Cotton South was well illustrated by Henry Grady, managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution. To a Boston audience in 1889, he described the funeral of a "one-gallus" man in Pickens County, Ga. Said Grady...
Industry draws industry. Each new payroll gave the South more money to spend. Northern manufacturers had to decide whether it was cheaper to feed this market by freight or by a new branch plant. Ford moved an assembly plant into Atlanta, General Motors began building Chevrolets, then Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks in Atlanta too. Purchasing power brought refrigerator plants, refrigerator plants brought enameling plants. Dairy processors and meat packers came along as Southern workers began eating higher & higher on the hog. An estimated 14% of all U.S. industry now lies in the Southeastern...
Across the U.S., an organized Protestant drive to block the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican was getting into high gear. Items last week: ¶ In Atlanta, the general board of the National Council of Churches (29 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox religious groups) named a six-man committee to help channel grass-roots opposition, make sure it reaches the ears of Congress.* ¶ On the West Coast, Author Paul (American Freedom and Catholic Power) Blanshard was in the midst of a nationwide tour with a party of speakers representing a militant organization with the nonstop name, Protestants and Other...
...left Virginia," says he, "I had a suitcase full of books on the teaching of religion and how it was learned." What he learned from those books, he carried wherever he went-from Macon, Ga. to St. Louis, where he headed the Episcopal education center, and finally to Atlanta...
Skeptic. In Atlanta, Earl Martin, 22, was fined $13 for stealing a comic book entitled Crime Does...