Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list of branches and affiliates stemming from its headquarters in Houston's 16-story Cotton Exchange Building is a complete lesson in world cotton geography. In North America the name Anderson, Clayton & Co. can be found in Montreal, Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business...
Different editions with different prices are printed for each branch. Shoes, for example, cost more in Chicago than in Boston, overalls more in San Francisco than in Atlanta...
...Class A dental schools in this country, only five are "independent" i.e., not affiliated with a university; San Francisco School of Dentistry, which hopes to join Stanford University; North Pacific College, of Portland, Ore.; Kansas City-Western; Atlanta-Southern; Texas Dental College, Houston. For lack of money Tulane University, Vanderbilt University and University of Cincinnati have closed their dental schools...
...Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was "all right." Assured it was, she admitted she was the babe's mother, trudged off with it to resume her housework...
...nursed her passion for Ashley through the hard War years, was determined to get him in the end. But Ashley's love for Melanie grew stronger, and both became quiet, strong, kindly, while Scarlett grew more venomous in her disappointment. At the fall of Atlanta, Scarlett, to keep her word to Ashley, took Melanie and Melanie's newborn baby through the retreat to the looted plantation. She found the countryside in ruins, her mother dead, her father mad. She almost starved, had to learn to do all the work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed...