Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When this state was formed 93 years ago there was a fight over the name. Many people now believe that West Virginia is merely western Virginia. Numerous residents of the state, in giving their addresses on out-of-state hotel registers, write "West (by God) Virginia." While Kanawha, Westsylvania, Augusta and others have been discussed in the legislative halls, the name which has won the widest favor is "Acadia," and means "a happy, prosperous land." The state would thus be the first in the alphabetical list of states and entitled to nominate Presidents ahead of Alabama. As it is, West...
...King to speak in the South on the problems of integration. The reason that he gave for his refusal was that he could not spare the time to "schedule a speaking engagement". The President has, however, in the past two weeks, been able to make two separate trips to Augusta, Georgia, spending a total of nine days...
Before he flew off for a weekend in Augusta. President Eisenhower last week sent to Congress messages asking for two Administration measures that the U.S. will be hearing about for a long time...
...partner in the enterprise. Gulf will press ahead in semi-autonomous Sicily where operations are governed by a more favorable oil law. This week, as Gulf's field in Ragusa, Sicily hit 18,000 bbls. a day, it opened a 14-in. pipeline to the port of Augusta, announced plans for a sharp step-up in production...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, Maine's Democratic governor, and Jane Gray Muskie, 29: a second daughter, third child; in Augusta, Me. Name: Melinda. Weight...