Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Point, Ga., four firemen and three city council members were called this week for examinations. Without waiting for teenagers, Illinois draft officials started working on registrants with collateral dependents and expected to induct childless married...
Columbus' board had calls from the big fields at Albany and Valdosta, Ga., found the same elemental instructor defects there and at Gulf Coast stations. Pilots began flying from the Pacific Coast to be checked out by the Columbus board. Between May, before Columbus started checking up on instructors, and October the accident rate at the station dropped 44%, though the number of students doubled and the number of students-per-instructor rose from two to three and one-half...
Beau Jack is no Joe Louis, but he is a busy little fighter. His real name is Sidney Walker and he is an orphan. When he was a moppet, he was found asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...soldiers discreetly retreated when a strangely dressed figure emerged from the woods near Fort McPherson, Ga. Clad in heavy garments, with goggles and big asbestos gloves, he toted a bulging burlap sack. Even technicians at the fort's medical laboratory shrank back. "Unclean, unclean," said one of them. "Phooey," replied Sergeant Seymour Shapiro. From his sack he pulled one of the long, leafy, hairy-stemmed vines of poison ivy he had been gathering, cut the vine into 3-ft. lengths and hung the pieces in bundles, like curing tobacco, from the ceiling...
Said he in his valedictory as he started for Fort Benning, Ga., a second lieutenant, at 42, in the medical administrative corps: " I could say, sure, I'm more useful at home, but in my heart I'd know I wasn't. . . . Not every citizen can go - I could...