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...hesitated. The men who were likkered up wanted to get it over with. An hour passed while the fire burned down. Some piney-woods lawgiver thought of an answer. Two of the raped woman's sons were there, Elzie and Early. So the crowd said for Elzie and Early to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Judge Lynch Overruled | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...though it was late in the day, he went straight to his office. Next day he drove 43 miles to the piney winter resort of Tcham Koria and told King Boris all about his trip to see his doctor. Next day he and the King talked again. That night he called the Cabinet together in Sofia for an unusual night session, and told them about his health trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Lowlands of 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Cool on the banks of piney Lake Mendota rests the quiet city of Madison, centre of a rich dairy and farming area, home of Wisconsin's State capitol and State university. Last week, though no petroleum has ever been found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mamma Spank | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Tattnall State Prison, brand new "Alcatraz of the Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jail Breakage | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pines & Pioneers | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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