Word: brevard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lumber and cigarette paper? Yes. But good music is about the last thing travelers on U.S. Highway 64 would expect to find in the Blue Ridge town of Brevard, N.C. (pop. 3,000). Last week, nonetheless, with its Transylvania Music Camp in full swing for a fifth consecutive season, Brevard was momentarily the music capital of the South...
...attempt.began in 1945 when hustling Jim Pfohl, then a 32-year-old music professor at Davidson College, came upon an abandoned summer camp for boys in the woods near Brevard. The lake was a weed patch; the buildings were gone to rack & ruin. Pfohl made a pay-you-later deal with the owners, rebuilt the camp and opened it. After three seasons in the red, he persuaded Brevard's civic leaders to back the camp...
...Senate last week heard Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, one of the five globe-girdling Senators, repeat in public what he had told the Senate in private (TIME, Oct. 18). Main news for the galleries...
Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell was most worried about the extensive promises being made...
Examples: the Wage Adjustment Board has boosted the pay of workers on a Navy contract in Brevard County, Fla. from 30 to 50?-an increase of 66.6%. It has advanced the pay of glaziers at the Oklahoma City aircraft assembly plant from 90? to $1.25 per hour-an increase of 38.9% WLB argues that such increases were contemplated when the War Labor Board was set up, that the Little Steel formula was not meant to be a rigid standard. But unveiling the huge building-trade wage raises put WLB and the Administration on the spot. The New Deal still seemed...