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...dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta, Ga. The airline's success has paralleled the rapid growth of the South. Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has become the third busiest commercial airport in the world-after Chicago's O'Hare and the Los Angeles International Airport-and much of the traffic belongs to Delta...
...Hartsfield [March 8] you stated, "After he retired in 1962, Atlanta named only two things after him (a gorilla and an incinerator)." During his lifetime, Mayor Emeritus Hartsfield consistently refused to allow the city to honor him in some substantive way. Now, however, the nation's fourth busiest airport is called the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta Airport...
Georgia's landscape, like its people, is varied. To the south lies the coastal plain. There Savannah, one of the South's busiest seaports, holds itself proud and aloof from the hinterlands...
...patterns killing cities elsewhere in the nation. Whites are fleeing to the suburbs, leaving behind an inner-city population that is 51.3% black. Unemployment among the marginally skilled blacks of the ghettos is three times that of the city's whites. Although it boasts one of the world's busiest airports and a rail network that feeds the Southeast, Atlanta's commuters creep bumper to bumper in rush-hour traffic unrelieved by mass transit. Within minutes of downtown is bucolic countryside?but Peachtree Creek and the Chattahoochee River are badly polluted. Inexorably, Atlanta moves toward repeating the environmental and demographic...
...them into 75-ton trucks. The ore is then crushed and transported by 150-car, mile-long freight trains to Port Hedland, where it is loaded aboard freighters at the rate of 10,000 tons an hour. The boom has turned Port Hedland into the world's fifth busiest port...