Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freehanded. In Chattanooga, Convicted Forger Hubert C. Warren, 28, was discharged from the Hamilton County workhouse after he handed guards a jail release that he had forged...
Born in Blacksburg, S.C. into a farming family of Scots-Irish-German origin, he was educated at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, at North Carolina's old Trinity College (now Duke University) and at M.I.T. ('26), where he got a degree in business and engineering administration and made Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he stayed on to work for M.I.T.'s Technology Review, was made editor in 1930, spent the next nine years picking up a general know-how of the whole spectrum of science and engineering, developing a facility for tight organization and clear, candid self...
...next year will start building biggest U.S. steam generating unit. Located 45 miles southwest of Chattanooga, the $86 million generator will have capacity...
When the President ordered paratroopers into Little Rock, it was predictable there would be an angry outcry from Southern newspapers; only half a dozen of them-notably the Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie...
Aaron started to learn his trade as a kid on the sand lots of Mobile, Ala. After high school he joined the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns, an all-Negro team. "One time in 1952 we made a 900-mile hop," he recalls. "We left Chattanooga right after a night game, rode all night, the next day and part of the next too. Then we played that night in Buffalo. I got ten hits in eleven trips...