Word: ludowici
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jerkwater traffic traps set to catch and fleece U.S. motorists, the most wondrously efficient was a fast-flicking traffic light in southeast Georgia's tiny (pop. 2,100) Ludowici.* The Ludowici light, which has brought the American Automobile Association more complaints than any other light in the U.S., hangs astride the intersection of two heavily traveled highways: State 38 to Savannah and a combined U.S. 25 and U.S. 301, which funnels thousands of vacationers from the East and Midwest toward Florida. For traffic on U.S. 25-301 (which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known...
...American Automobile Association and the Georgia State Department of Commerce sat down for still another in a long procession of meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey...
...Changed from the Southern-style, Anglo-Saxon name of Johnson's Station in honor of German Immigrant Karl Ludowici, 19th century roofing-tile manufacturer, who gave $1,000 toward a new school building...
Brick Veneer. To get around the disadvantages of conventional bricks, which are heavy, costly to transport, and cannot be laid easily in cold weather, Chicago's Ludowici-Celadon Co. has developed Nail-On, a hard clay brick ¾ in. thick. It can be nailed to a wall through a lip protruding along its top edge; the bottom edge of the next brick overlaps the lip to form a neat joint. Mortar can be applied whenever builder and weather are ready...