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...drastic steps needed to catch up with the bag revolution, Sandy Calder needed control of the company. He and Brother Lou Calder, now president of Perkins-Goodwin, bought Union common stock steadily at its 1932 low of $5.50. In January 1934 they had control and headed south to Savannah, Ga. to build one of the world's biggest paper plants...
...Savannah's potent Citizens & Southern National Bank, anxious to lure big business to Georgia, lent Union $1,000,000 outright. From other banks $1,500,000 was obtained. Union stockholders bought enough $30 shares of Union common stock to provide an additional $1,500,000 needed. Union's Savannah plant started operation in July 1936 and Union has now caught up fully with the paper revolution. Last year it made 7,000,000,000 of the U. S. total of 50,000,000,000 paper bags. Its $10,800,000 bag sales were...
...convention cost the 101 girls (aged 16 to 20) nothing. Its funds were provided by the Juliette Low Memorial Fund. It was the late Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low who, after she had met Boy Scout Founder Robert Baden-Powell, founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Ga. 27 years ago. There are now some 400,000 Girl Scouts in the U. S., one for every two Boy Scouts. Outside the U. S. may be found another million Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. According to The Girl Scout News Sheet, Mrs. Low was "handicapped by deafness and later by a fatal illness...
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...exhausted Confederates would throw up the sponge and end the Civil War. In November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they did. By the tough general's own conservative estimate, the damage done amounted to $100,000,000. It was South Carolina's turn to howl next. General Sherman headed his troop: north and began destroying things right & left...