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...almost to death (the Dismal Swamp's yellow fly, they still say, will politely lift a man's hat from his head so as to get a better bite at his ears). The swamp, straddling the Virginia-North Carolina border, just across the James River Bay from Norfolk, was nothing better than a "filthy bogg," he wrote. Even birds would not fly over "this horrible desart for fear of the noisome exhalations that rise from this vast body of dirt and nastiness...
...failed, who would take a financial chance? Previews, Inc., that's who. Previews, Inc. is a real estate firm that, with associated companies, has purchased about 160,000 acres of Dismal Swampland, is turning some of it into farm land, hopes to sell more to housing developers for Norfolk's spreading population...
Ships, Planes & Subs. As the Russian ships headed toward Cuba on their collision course with the blockading force. Dennison walked to a wall map in his Norfolk headquarters and outlined the Navy's problem. "The approaches to Cuba are pretty well funneled down. Most ships headed for Cuba come out of the North Atlantic and have to come through the Bahamas or the Lesser Antilles, and both the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles have relatively few channels. We don't really have any headaches. We have plenty of force. There are a lot of ships out there...
Lines from $1.9 million to $7.2 million, while increased rail freight loadings hiked the earnings of the Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Norfolk & Western. Heading toward its best year since 1957, Chrysler Corp. swung around from last year's third-quarter deficit of $4.8 million to a profit of $3.2 million. In oil, higher sales offset gasoline price wars and led to profit increases of 7% to 42% for Cities Service, Texaco, Socony Mobil, Gulf, Tidewater, Sun and Shell...
Some doctors, said Dr. Harry Pariser of Norfolk, Va., are too much influenced by ";a clean-cut appearance and an air of prosperity or social prominence" in a patient, and thus fail to order a blood test...