Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's infantile paralysis experts gathered last week at Warm Springs, Ga. to observe the 20th anniversary of the full-scale U.S. war against polio which Franklin Roosevelt launched in 1927. The experts were shown a grim parade of 84 patients with grotesquely twisted spines and limbs-eloquent evidence that in spite of two decades of earnest slugging by medical science, the war against polio is still an uphill struggle...
Your Honor! In Brunswick, Ga., for the second time in two months, conscientious cops arrested the mayor for drunken driving...
...Custom. In Valdosta, Ga., the watchful city council announced that henceforth liquor licenses would be required for any place of business selling...
Dress & Doll. Sophie was born in Houston, Tex. Her father, Felix Haas, a tobacco merchant, died when she was four years old and a year later her mother married Dr. John Alexander McLeay, a Canadian surgeon, and the family moved to Atlanta, Ga. (Now 80, Mrs. McLeay lives alone at New York's Hotel Delmonico.) Sophie's first fling at designing was as a child in Atlanta; she made clothes for her dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where...
...glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work on a $1,000,000-odd plant in Hazleton, Pa. Already completed in Cornelia, Ga. was the $1,000,000 plant of the Chicopee Mfg. Corp. (a textile-making subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson...