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...railroads rigged their rates on freight for export so that the vast flow of cargoes from the West passed through North Atlantic ports. Item: from Alton, Ill. to Baltimore or New York the first-class freight rate is $1.68 per 100 pounds. But to the deep-water port of Savannah the rate is $2.39, though the mileage from Alton to the three ports is about the same...
...lesson in reporting that Tom Stokes remembers best came on the day when, with a shiny new Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Georgia dangling on his vest, he reported for work at the Savannah Press. Managing Editor William G. ("Billy") Sutlive looked him over dourly, barked: "There are two things I want to tell you. One is that a good reporter is half head. The other is that he's half legs. We don't do any telephone reporting around here; we go out and see people...
Norman Littell was particularly harassed, he said, by a Justice Department fraud investigation of Savannah Shipyard Co., represented in Washington by Corcoran...
...Orleans, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami and Key West) was ready for big-time commercial aviation, with a brand-new Civil Aeronautics Board license in its pocket. As soon as it can get the planes, National can start regular flights to New York through the prize air-travel territory of Savannah, Wilmington, N.C. and Norfolk. The expansion was financed by increased operating revenues (May's take: $156,000) and a $113,333⅓ stock issue which was offered at $13.75, jumped to $15 within a week...
...Manhattan and met a ragtimer named Charlie Cherry. Jimmie later sweated over fundamentals with an old-fashioned scales and exercises man. In 1912 easy money ended Jimmie's school days-he started playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts...