Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lane decided that his bank, the biggest in the Deep South (assets: $1.5 billion), should become deeply involved in increasing home ownership and black capitalism in deprived areas. As a first step, he devised "the Georgia Plan," which starts with local cleanup drives and leads to high-risk improvement loans...
...Georgia sharecropper, a child of the Depression who was twice a high school dropout. He eventually went to Georgia's Fort Valley State College, worked as a probation officer in. Savannah, and then moved to Chapel Hill in 1964 as a graduate student in social work. Lee's strenuous campaign centered on the contention that Chapel Hill, whose voting population is less than 10% Negro, was failing to meet the needs of its people in public transportation, recreation, city planning and housing...
...Crane Co., Universal-Rundle Corp., Briggs Manufacturing Co., Gerber Plumbing Fixtures Corp., Ogden Corp., Mansfield Sanitary Inc., Peerless Pottery Inc., Kilgore Ceramics Corp., Lawndale Industries Inc., Georgia Sanitary Pottery Inc., Wallace-Murray Corp., Rheem Manufacturing...
...poor are being shortchanged," says Albert. "Then we search for a plaintiff to represent." The organization has been responsible, in whole or in part, for the spate of recent Supreme Court rulings that have broadened the rights of welfare recipients. In 1966 the high court upheld a decision prohibiting Georgia from denying relief benefits to mothers whom the state deemed able to work. Other cases included a landmark decision against Alabama, which had sought to end payments to mothers either widowed or estranged from their husbands if the women were "cohabiting" with other men. To Alabama authorities, the men were...
...troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits more than 60% for Weyerhauser and Georgia-Pacific...