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...Atlanta, Ga...
Polish Tennist Jadwiga Jedrezejowska says she pronounces her name Yah-dvee-ga Yed-drze-yoef...
...drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily at its 1932 low of $5.50. In January 1934 they had control and headed south to Savannah, Ga. to build one of the world's biggest paper plants...
Since then, some 20,000 parking meters made by half-a-dozen companies at about $58 apiece have sprouted along the streets of 40-odd U. S. cities, among them: Dallas, Houston and El Paso, Tex.; Miami and St. Petersburg, Fla.; Providence, R. I.; Kansas City, Mo.; Macon, Ga.; Atlantic City, N. J.; Scranton, Pa. Last week the Denver city council voted to install them and Baltimore was considering it. Many cities are enthusiastic about their meters. Dallas, for example, gets about $140,000 yearly from her 1,500, considers they have "solved our parking problems." But not all cities...
...beat a race horse over a hundred-yard course in Havana, but it is an old carnival stunt. A man reaches his maximum speed in a few seconds. Over limited distances he can run up a big lead before the horse gets going. But last week in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., a man-&-horse race was given a new twist...