Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared to $20.34 in the East. Living costs in the East were found to be only 5.8% higher than the South, while average weekly earnings ranged from 15.7% higher in the printing industry to 45.3% higher in the gas industry...
...Texas excluded) the South's six biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities which Governors of other Southern States last week were protesting...
...Southern lumber's $229,000,000 production was half the U. S. total. Southern fertilizer production was $97,000,000 against a total of $140,000,000 for the whole nation. From 1900 to 1935 the total manufactured production of the U. S. rose from $11,400,000,000 to $45,700,000,000; in the South from...
...years later he planned the fight that licked California's chain-store tax. Besides these two feats, able Adman Francisco, head of Lord & Thomas' San Francisco office for 17 years, has built up such lucrative accounts as California Fruit Growers Exchange (Sunkist), The All-Year Club of Southern California and Californians, Inc. (tourists). He has also advertised Southern Pacific Co., the Dollar Steamship Lines, Union Oil Co. of California...
...this July, Georgia readers read with apoplectic rage a new book called A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading non-fiction best-seller...