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...Atlanta, Ga., Sergius P. Grace heard of the Tate report. A vice president and department head of Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc., the research bureau of the Bell Telephone system and the Western Electric Co., Mr. Grace was at Atlanta for the regional convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Chemicals. For more than $4,000,000 the Davison Chemical Co. has bought control of phosphate and fertilizer plants at Charleston, S. C.; Cordele, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; New Albany, Ind.; Columbus, Ohio; Atlanta, Ga...
...machine for picking the seeds out of cotton, first invented by Eli Whitney at Savannah, Ga., in 1793, said to have been the largest single factor in the South's success...
...significance of Rockefeller Jr.'s choice of the Dunbar National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman...
...When the flagship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, the City of New York, left Manhattan on August 26, it looked as if this would be one trip on which there would be no Negro. But Robert White Lanier, a 20-year-old Negro youth from Brunswick, Ga., via Jersey City, thought differently. He is evidently one of those youths filled with the spirit of adventure, since he had hiked across the continent some time before. At any rate, he concealed himself aboard the City of New York, and was not discovered until the bark was well...