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Education In 1916 98% of all commercial intercity travelers in the United States moved by rail and the remaining 2% moved by inland waterways Nearly 42 million passengers used railways as primary transportation Passenger trains were owned and operated by the same privately owned companies that operated freight trains As the 20th century progressed patronage declined in the face of competition from buses air travel and the automobile New streamlined diesel-powered trains such as the Pioneer Zephyr were popular with the traveling public but could not reverse the trend by 1940 railroads held just 67 percent of commercial passenger-miles in the United States in real terms passenger-miles had fallen by 40% since 1916 from 42 billion to 25 billion. Companies headquartered in Fulton County include AFC Enterprises (Popeyes Chicken/Cinnabon) AT&T Mobility Chick-fil-A Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Church's Chicken the Coca-Cola Company Cox Enterprises Delta Air Lines Earthlink Equifax First Data Georgia-Pacific Global Payments Inc InterContinental Hotels Group IBM Internet Security Systems Mirant Corp Newell Rubbermaid Northside Hospital Piedmont Healthcare Porsche Cars North America Saint Joseph's Hospital Southern Company Spectrum Brands SunTrust Banks United Parcel Service and Wendy's/Arby's Group are based in various cities throughout Fulton County.[citation needed], c denotes constant that is function of shape frontal area and sides of vehicle. The British also sought to maintain peaceful relations with those Indian tribes that had allied with the French by keeping them separated from the American frontiersmen to this end the Royal Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains as this was designated an Indian Reserve Some groups of settlers disregarded the proclamation however and continued to move west and establish farms the proclamation was soon modified and was no longer a hindrance to settlement but the fact angered the colonists that it had been promulgated without their prior consultation. Costa Rica (11) The southern half of Midtown between 8th Street and North Ave was originally purchased by Richard Peters in 1848 to use the pine forest there for fuel for his downtown flour mill Over the next 40 years Peters slowly subdivided sections of these land lots off for a gridded residential area and built his own home there on Peachtree at 4th Street His son Edward built his home on the block bounded by North Avenue Piedmont Avenue Ponce de Leon Avenue and Myrtle Street the home now called Ivy Hall was restored by the Savannah College of Art & Design in 2008 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 13.2 Commercial railways Atlanta has a rich tradition in collegiate athletics with two NCAA Division I programs in the city and a third in the metropolitan area 1 History.

7.2 Club sports, Thomas C Carper Michigan Line: Amtrak acquired the west end of the former Michigan Central main line from Conrail in 1976, Education Infielders Sale to Liberty Media. Haralson (29,256) The Downtown Connector seen at night in Midtown As with all other US states and the federal government Georgia's government is based on the separation of legislative executive and judicial power Executive authority in the state rests with the governor currently Brian Kemp (Republican) Both the Governor of Georgia and lieutenant governor are elected on separate ballots to four-year terms of office Unlike the federal government but like many other U.S States most of the executive officials who comprise the governor's cabinet are elected by the citizens of Georgia rather than appointed by the governor. Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr testified before Congress in support of the Civil Rights Act and Governor Carl Sanders worked with the Kennedy administration to ensure the state's compliance Ralph McGill editor and syndicated columnist at the Atlanta Constitution earned admiration by writing in support of the Civil Rights Movement in 1970 newly elected Governor Jimmy Carter declared in his inaugural address that the era of racial segregation had ended in 1972 Georgians elected Andrew Young to Congress as the first African American Congressman since Reconstruction. .