Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROSS Clarksville, Tenn...
...minute last January, Boss Edward Hull Crump was Mayor of Memphis, Tenn. His sole official act was to cancel his city's invitation to the American Newspaper Guild to hold its seventh annual convention in Memphis. Said Boss Crump: "You will not be welcome...
...Dirty Dozen," Pud was a bit on the model side until the boys persuaded him to smoke a few cigarets, toss off a couple of noggins of beer. At 18, he was sent to Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles G. Morton, whose stepdaughter he married in 1923. Same year he met David Sarnoff who raved so much about radio's possibilities that Trammell asked...
...best customers is Aluminum Co.. of America, whose big mill at Alcoa, Tenn., is loaded with orders for aircraft parts. Alcoa, watching TVA's firm-power sales expand, feared it might be elbowed out of the TVA reserve power on which it relies for peak-season production. (TVA withdrew 30,000 kw. from Aluminum Co. on July 1.) Alcoa welcomed TVA's promise of new capacity, but wanted still more. Proposing to build two hydro stations of its own (90,000 kw.) on the Little Tennessee, Alcoa asked the Federal Power Commission whether it claimed jurisdiction over...
First to introduce streamliners to the South with the Rebels (New Orleans to Jackson, Tenn.), he went competitors one better by stocking his streamliners with smart, good-looking college girls - the U. S.'s first train hostesses. Scheduled to pay for themselves in seven and a half years, the sleek, Diesel-powered stream liners paid out in less than half that time. In 1936 President Tigrett formed Gulf Transport Co. to handle freight over a coordinated rail-highway system. To it he added a passenger service with tickets interchangeable between busses and trains. Says he: "We believe in hauling...