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...lint-head in the textile mills. Representative Joseph R. Bryson was once a millhand too. Burnet Maybank called at the White House. When he left, he was authorized to announce that South Carolina would get two more fat power developments: a $28,000,000 project on the Savannah River, southwest of Charleston, another at Lylesford, northwest of Columbia. A week before the primary, Burnet Maybank called on the President again, came out with an announcement that Charleston's Navy Yard and harbor were to be improved...
...South is little stronger. One-fifth of the U.S. population lives in the area bounded by the Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers -but only one-fortieth of the U.S. Catholics. Here, in this virgin field for Catholic proselytizing, Catholicism is making its greatest percentage gains. Example: the diocese of Savannah-Atlanta in 1940 made proportionately 14 times as many converts as Boston and four times as many as Chicago-two great Catholic strongholds. Since 1937 the number of Catholics in the South has increased...
...Delta runs 20 flights daily over 1,584 miles between Savannah, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Dallas. In the nine months ending March, its five Douglas DC-3s (delivered in January) and four Lockheed Electras carried 39,444 passengers, more than 800% above the whole of 1935. Delta's gross from operations was $851,470 in the same period, of which about $50,000 still came from crop-dusting work. But depreciation and personnel-training costs went up so fast the line lost $31,116, first deficit since...
Classes are usually held in mess halls or recreation buildings. But at several Southern posts, including the Savannah, Ga. air base, soldiers assemble at night for instruction at local high schools which by day are filled with giggling girls in socks and sweaters...
...Once, in Savannah, when a base hit and an error put two men on base, he got a ribbing. He countered by grandiosely calling in his outfielders, then striking out the next three...