Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Athens, Ga...
Banks last week charged government bond dealers as much as 10% a year for loans to finance their holdings of securities. Interest rates on tax-exempt local bonds reached new peaks. Cobb County, Ga., for example, paid 6.49% interest to float an issue. A block of Government-guaranteed local public-housing bonds was offered to investors at a record annual yield of 5.55%. For a person in the 50% federal income-tax bracket, that is the equivalent of an 11% return before taxes on ordinary stocks or bonds...
...plan is well under way in Savannah, where 40 impoverished Negroes have been helped to buy homes and 23 have received loans to begin or expand their own businesses. The bank has also mounted cleanup campaigns in the Negro neighborhoods of Valdosta and Albany, Ga., where thousands of blacks and whites together swept up and carted away hundreds of tons of junk. When the campaign was repeated in Savannah, some 30,000 people showed up to participate. Last week Lane introduced his plan to seven other Georgia cities, including Atlanta...
Late in the final round of the Mas ters tournament in Augusta, Ga., last week, spectators following George Archer began shouting, "Charge! Charge!" Recalls Archer: "I said to myself, 'I left my credit card at home. I'll take the cash...
...sudden departure. Ghana is scheduled to hold national elections in September and return to civilian rule. Politically ambitious, Ankrah needed the money to pay for a survey that assessed his chances of winning the presidency. There may also have been tribal jealousies involved. Ankrah is a member of the Ga tribe, dominant around the capital, and Afrifa belongs to the Ashantis. Furthermore, Afrifa is a supporter of a fellow Ashanti, former Opposition Leader Kofi Abrefa Busia, who is a candidate for the presidency...