"The Whole Six Yards"

[Joel S. Berson]

The following are all from the South.  Did "six yards" spread in 80
or so years from Kentucky to the deep South?  Say via Tennessee?  The
three are in fact from the (only) three states to the south of Tennessee!

(Or, Bill, did you find other examples elsewhere?)

Joel

At 9/10/2012 03:42 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>If I had seen the following before the recent discussion, I'd have
>simply thought they were mistakes.  Now, I'm not so sure.
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>[Lafayette GA] _Walker County Messenger_ 25 Apr 1990 p 4A col 4 [Google
>News Archive]
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>"That will be an impossibility until the whole "six-yards" is resolved."
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>[Florence AL] _TimesDaily_ 26 Apr 1990 p. 8A col 6 [Google News Archive]
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>" "We had to go the whole six yards on this case," Plott said."
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>Elaine Dundy _Elvis and Gladys_   Jackson, MS: University Press of
>Mississippi, 2004  p. 93 [Google Books]
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>" "We had them all," says Charlie Boren, "the whole six yards." "
>[referring to the many country bands that had appeared on a radio
>station]
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