Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Register of the Treasury, Savannah Banker Louis B. Toomer, 60, a Negro. Said Toomer, who will direct the work of 3,000 employees auditing the public debt and checking off paid-up securities: "This shows what the G.O.P. thinks of the Negroes, compared with what the Democrats thought...
...Drink & Be Merry. In Savannah, when Mrs. Annie L. Horski sued the local Coca-Cola bottling company for $20,000 after allegedly finding a cockroach in one of its bottles, Defense Counsel Alex Lawrence told the jury that the insect could cause her no harm, to prove his point took a cockroach from his pocket, ate half of it, won his case...
...budget testimony released last week, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean disclosed that the Savannah River, S.C. plant for large-scale production of H-bomb materials had begun partial operations. Already making atomic weapons so fast that it is running out of storage space, the A.E.C. plans to up production of both weapons and fissionable materials more than 25% in fiscal...
Blonde Hazel Gardner, 39, is the Equitable Credit Corporation's only woman auto finance manager, and for three years she has run its Savannah office as well as any man. But 15 months ago, a loud, cigar-chewing, Savannah car-rental operator, R. J. Bedgood, skipped town, leaving Hazel and her office holding the bag for $20,000 in mortgages on missing automobiles. After a year of investigating, Hazel developed one slim lead: Bedgood had once been a construction worker and might be working somewhere in the construction business...
...subcontractor in Laporte, Texas. She did. "Yes, we have R. J. Bedgood employed here," reported the Laporte office clerk. "I can get him to the phone if it's an emergency." "Never mind, operator," said Hazel, and hung up. Her next call was to the Savannah chief of detectives, who put in a few calls himself...