Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society itself appears to be dissolving," began a letter to William Candler, Coca Cola heir and proprietor of Atlanta's Hotel Biltmore. What Society needed, it went on, was a "directive class.'' Would Mr. Candler be the first to buy a title in the Nobility of the United States? Prices: Duke, $1,000,000; Marquis, $700,000; Count, $500,000; Baron, $200,000. To become a nobleman, Mr. Candler must choose his title, dispatch a check within 18 hours to one J. P. Reinach of Washington...
Into this gloomy scene came an ebullient young man named Roy S. Evans who sells automobiles in Atlanta, Ga. Last week he acquired American Austin Car Co. by an outlay of just $5,000. In addition he assumed a $150,000 mortgage on the plant, $40,000 in overdue interest, $35,000 in unpaid taxes. Automan Evans said he and his associates would buy $250,000 worth of new machinery. "Within ten days," he announced, "we expect to have ready enough parts for the 10,000 Austins now running. Then we will swing into making new cars. Within a year...
...dozen pairs of socks and stockings sold in the U. S. every six months. They account for perhaps 75% of all high-class women's clothes sold each season. Typical routine of a dress, hat and lingerie buyer from a department store in Atlanta...
...Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store's resident buyer, who is simply an agent employed to keep it abreast of style changes, make emergency purchases on request. At the resident buyer's office, the girl from Atlanta is assigned a small bare room with enough furniture for comfort but not enough to distract her from the business at hand. Already manufacturers' salesmen have begun to arrive. They line the corridor outside the buyer's office. Some are empty handed; others lug heavy sample cases. Office boys...
...buyer from Atlanta will stay in Manhattan from two to three weeks, buy anywhere from $2,000 to $15,000 worth of goods. In the evenings she is apt to go to the Hollywood Restaurant or to Leon & Eddie's with a young male buyer she has met at a merchandise fair, while her less comely comrades go to bed at 8 o'clock. Sometimes she will be taken to the theatre by someone who wants her trade. Ugly or pretty, every buyer is continually hounded by salesmen who pop up in hotel lobbies, deliver rousing sales talks...