Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with express-train momentum, but it was a long time getting started. The plight of the old Cotton South was well illustrated by Henry Grady, managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution. To a Boston audience in 1889, he described the funeral of a "one-gallus" man in Pickens County, Ga. Said Grady...
...plant, the sizes of the symbols indicating the relative value of each area's plants. In addition to the major industries shown on this eleven-state map, the South is dotted with important food processing plants; seafood canning is big business in New Orleans, Mobile and Brunswick, Ga., as is meat and fruit packing in Jacksonville, poultry freezing in Gainesville, Ga., sugar refining in New Orleans, Louisville and Savannah...
Port Wentworth, Ga. built a new industrial water plant to attract the Southern Paperboard company. Natchez, Miss, "clarified" the state stream pollution law to get the Johns-Manville insulation board plant. In Greenville, Tenn., some schools joined in educating the populace in the art of dairy farming to help the Pet Milk Co. build up a milk supply for its new processing factory...
...Columbus, Ga., Rear Admiral (Ret.) Richard E. Byrd, 63, announced that he was just waiting for world tensions to slacken before taking off on another trip to the South Pole. This time, he said, women would be included in his crew, since they had "proved they can take...
...decided that he wanted to be both teacher and minister in one. "When I left Virginia," says he, "I had a suitcase full of books on the teaching of religion and how it was learned." What he learned from those books, he carried wherever he went-from Macon, Ga. to St. Louis, where he headed the Episcopal education center, and finally to Atlanta...