Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike other cities of the Old South, Atlanta, Ga. was a modern industrial community from the start. Staked out just one hundred years ago as a railroad terminal, it soon grew until four important lines crossed there. Its commercial activity had few attractions to Southerners who were trained to the slower pace of plantations, while its pushing, aggressive, competitive life made it distasteful to the leisured aristocrats of Savannah or Charleston. But as an island of industrialism in the drowsy sea of Southern society, Atlanta attracted dissatisfied spirits who were fed up with the old order and wanted change even...
Last week readers had an opportunity to learn about Atlanta's history in an imposing first novel chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for July. The work of a young Atlanta newspaperwoman, Gone With the Wind is remarkable in other ways than its extreme length. In its 1,037 pages Margaret Mitchell has pictured pre-Civil War plantation life, the disintegration of Southern society during the War, the siege of Atlanta, the chaos of Reconstruction, the emergence of industrialism with its high-pressure rivalries, employment problems, money standards, as the plantation system gave way; the persistence...
...rude on principle in his recoil from the affected gallantry he saw all around him. When the War broke he became a blockade runner and made money with his unpatriotic speculations. But Scarlett married Melanie's brother for spite, was a widow two months later, moved to Atlanta to be with Melanie, who had married the man they both loved...
...Atlanta, Georgia's State Supreme Court ruled that C. D. Sanders, country school principal who had set fire to his pajamas while grading examination papers, had not been "injured in the regular course of his employment...
...Atlanta, Jack Bone, aged 17 months, came upon an eight-inch snake in his back yard, bit it, killed it. Bundled off to a hospital, Jack Bone was pronounced unharmed...