Word: columbus
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...Republicans were as amiable as the candidate who was mad at nobody. In Columbus, Ohio, Warren was greeted by Senator Robert Taft, who shook his head dubiously over Warren's nonpartisan speech in Salt Lake City (TIME, Sept. 27). "I read with great interest what Governor Warren had to say," said forthright Bob Taft. "You know that is exactly contrary to everything I stand...
Rising Sun is the third volume in Morison's naval history of the war, and the first of eight on the war against Japan. Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Columbus and professor of history at Harvard, Morison got his big job from his friend Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and has had all the Navy's help in carrying it out. He uses official facts (including Japanese naval records) and his own judgment...
...Georgia's "wool hat" country, the Central of Georgia Railway Co. was as poor as its riders. Its battered, rickety old engines clattered from Atlanta to Savannah and Columbus, hardly making enough to pay their fuel bills. But last year the Central threw away its wool hat. It raised $1,242,527, bought two streamlined trains, the Man 0' War and Nancy Hanks II, plugged them with ads and free-excursion trips for children. Last week the Central totted up its gain. In one year, the trains had made $206,829, enough to put the Central...
Lithopolis, Ohio (pop. 300) hasn't changed much since stagecoaches to Columbus stopped there 75 years ago. The village has two restaurants, four churches and an undertaker-but no railroad station, bank or high school. Most Lithopolitans are in the farming or feed business. But Lithopolis has something most hamlets haven...
Since he first proposed building prefabricated houses of enameled steel, Lustron Corp.'s Carl Strandlund has found a willing helper in the Government. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent him $15.5 million, got him a Columbus (Ohio) surplus plant (TIME, Feb. 10, 1947), pushed his priority claims to steel. Last week RFC again gave Lustron another big boost. Although Lustron has turned out only seven model houses in a year, RFC lent it another $10 million...