Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success formula of the week came from Georgia's umbrageous Dan Duke, outgoing Assistant Attorney General. Defeated by "white supremacy" champions, Duke let go from the bitter corner of his mouth with ten rules for success in Georgia politics...
...watch a farmer and his son laboriously grading a small field with the help of a decrepit old mule. The sight was a common one in the South, and it was not new to Robert Marion Strickland, 50, president of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia (main Coca-Cola bank). But he had just been visiting a well-heeled farmer friend who had cleared and graded a 30,000-acre farm in a short time with heavy machinery. Bob Strickland decided on the spot to bring the benefits of machinery to the 144,000 little fanners in Georgia...
Last summer, just as his plan was well under way, Bob Strickland died. But the Trust Co. carried on his program. By last week, in 100 of Georgia's 159 counties, 57 farm contractors (80% of them veterans) were helping farmers grade land, pull stumps, build terraces and ditches, spread fertilizer. Farmers soon found that the contractors could save them time and money. Example: one contractor charged only $150 to clear 20 acres of cut-over woodland in a day, a job that would have taken the farmer weeks...
Encouraged by the success of contractors like the Bells, the Trust Co. of Georgia took another step to improve Georgia agriculture. This week the bank decided to spend $25,000 a year on a Robert Strickland Memorial Agricultural Fund, to promote better farming...
...contingent represented an unknown frontier for French critics, and they explored it warily. The 84 uniformly small canvases (by such local big shots as Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler and Morris Kantor) had been recently acquired by the State Department. It looked as though the State Department had kept within its budget by accepting second-best samples which might impress Paris by the originality, but not the quality, of U.S. taste...