Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priorities do not go to big business. In Lithonia, Ga. (pop. 1,554) the four Davidson brothers, who call themselves "Dentists to American Hens," last week tested $20,000 worth of new machinery which they had got after a long fight with the Office of Production Management. They got the machines in the name of defense. Their purpose: to crush and screen the Stonemo Granite Grit which is the Davidson brothers' contribution to the health of the U.S. chicken...
...long caterpillar of cloud last week wound over the drought-baked hills of Fort Benning, Ga. Within its dusty, choking interior moved a new kind of U.S. fighting team, facing its first test...
Nevertheless Frank Cohen went to Savannah, Ga., bought from the Port Authority 1,500 feet of frontage along the Savannah River, leased another 1,500 feet for 20 years. Savannah was no more hospitable than Admiral Land had been. As if a Jew in the gun business were not enough, he had brought along a Catholic, William R. Crowley, to run his projected yards. Savannah's xenophobes saw the whole thing as a Wall Street plot. By last week Savannah was changing its mind...
Dwight Floyd Pyle, seaman, second class, Bainbridge, Ga...
...Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He made his way to the U.S. as oiler on a freighter, spent several years decorating wax candles and painting posters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In the '20s he moved to Atlanta, met and married a girl from Rome (Ga.), started painting murals. When Tobacco Millionaire Dick Reynolds hired him to decorate a mansion on Sapelo Island, Ga., Painter Menaboni did a series of murals in which some of Reynolds' best friends appeared with the bodies of jungle animals. Sapelo Island was full of birds, and Menaboni started...