Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, my father's funeral procession, led by two of the city's finest mounted policemen, was routed down the main street right through the heart of town. Thus the city of Griffin, Ga. paid its final respects to one of its oldest Negro citizens. Despite all the puny efforts of Gauleiter "Hummon" Talmadge, the people in the South will still abide by the laws of the nation; and if he would pull off that storm trooper's uniform, he wouldn't be so bad himself...
EDISON MARSHALL Augusta, Ga...
...silicon solar battery (TIME, May 3, 1954), it promised to find practical work for it as soon as possible. Last week Bell told how one of these batteries (432 quarter-sized silicon disks in an aluminum frame) is gathering solar energy for a rural telephone line near Americus, Ga. At night or in dark weather the line works on storage batteries charged when the sun is shining...
...many confessions as the enemy wishes. 3) Allow the P.W. to do anything the enemy requires except take action which is in any way harmful to fellow prisoners. Any P.W. found guilty of this crime to be punished to the maximum of the law. HENRY F. GARLINGTON Savannah, Ga...
...highest death rate among U.S. prisoners since the Revolutionary War. During the Civil War, 14% of the Union's P.W.s died in Confederate captivity, including 26% of the 49,485 prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. During World War I, 4,120 U.S. soldiers were captured, but only 147 died in the German Kaiser's prison camps. During World War II, the toll was 14,090 out of 129,701 U.S. prisoners -a cruel 10.9%; 10,031 out of 26,943 U.S. Army and Air Force prisoners died in the hands of the Japanese-37%-while only...