Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolph Simon Ochs was a teacher's son who had begun on his own as newsboy and printer's devil. Working on through nearly every standard newspaper job, he had bought the Chattanooga Times when he was 20, paying for it $250 (borrowed) and assuming its debts...
...preparing to sell. The editors, fearing the paper would fall into unworthy hands, rushed about and got a company organized which bought the property for $950,000. Then came the panic of 1893. The Times barely escaped consolidation and, in 1896, welcomed the help of Adolph Simon Ochs of Chattanooga. Tenn. For $75,000 and his services he got, within four years, half of its stock, which was now increased to 10,000 shares...
Across the Great Smoky Mountains lies Chattanooga, "Dynamo of Dixie," below and beyond which (an inch off the map) is Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River in Alabama, where stand the 612,000 h.p. Federal power plants...
Later in the week, four men were burned to death when a mail and passenger plane crashed near Chattanooga, Tenn...
Evangelists of the Methodist Episcopal Church South lamented last week that they had no jobs. Said Rev. John Patty of Chattanooga, addressing the convention of evangelists at Memphis: "Unemployment . . . has reached serious proportions and something must be done to enlist the sympathy of the . . . ministers, to open the doors of the churches...