Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...various firms and businesses for practical training. After a four week session, the girls will get "humble positions" in nearby firms "as a sort of shakedown cruise." Twelve weeks later, following further studies, they will have more responsible adminstrative duties in firms sometimes as distant as Cleveland or Atlanta, Ga...
...clay country around Marietta, Ga. an old story was retold. An ancient and destitute woman had scrabbled for years in one of the town's back streets. One day she took sick and a squad of church ladies moved in, tidied her shack, bathed her, dressed her in clean clothes and tucked her into a clean bed. When they called next day, they found the old woman and her bed back in the familiar rags. "I just wasn't comfortable," she explained. "I'll have to git used to them clean clothes gradual...
Glass Jaw. In Vidalia, Ga., Mack Crawford, weaving his way out of the Silver Moon bar, took a poke at a big guy who was holding the door shut, smashed his fist and the door's full-length mirror...
...Controls. In Pana, Ill., Landlord J. C. Davis, bent on shaking off his tenants, had his two sons haunt them with unearthly nocturnal shrieks and chain-clankings. In Weldon, N.C., Landlord J. W. Williams used dynamite, blew out a lot of flooring but not his eight tenants. In Hapeville, Ga., Landlord R. L. Ballard failed to budge his tenants by tearing the roof...
...Dogs. In Moultrie, Ga., Henry Fort sprinkled powder in his shoes, later discovered he had grabbed the can containing adhesive powder for false dentures...