Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young was born in England and went to the University of Birmingham, where he studied for the medical profession. After he took his degree he sailed for several years through the East as a ship's surgeon, gathering experiences and ideas for the books which he later wrote...
...Herald, circulation now 39,256 is Birmingham's only morning paper. There are an evening News (79,803) and a Scripps-Howard Post...
...Birmingham's growing pains were fierce ones. She had lots of labor and lots of ore, but both of low quality. She had nine railroads but these, after most of her other difficulties were solved, were long in the throes of rate wars. And after the railroads were quieted and regulated, two wide new vistas opened, calling Birmingham to fresh effort-the vistas of enormous power from nearby Muscle Shoals and of egress to the Gulf of Mexico down the Warrior River...
...Federal project, still hangs fire, but the Alabama Legislature at its last session authorized ten millions of state money for a state-controlled terminal at the port of Mobile, whither the Warrior flows. This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham." After years of "becoming," Birmingham was at last to be "great...
...last four years, observant Alabamans have said that Birmingham's new "greatness" began in 1922 when Publisher Frederick I. Thompson, who publishes all the newspapers in Mobile (the News-Item, evening; the Register, morning) as well as the Journal at Alabama's capital, Montgomery, bought the Age-Herald. It is said that he made the purchase to get backing for Mobile's $10,000,000 project in the Birmingham coal and steel district, that he sold it once his purpose was accomplished...