Word: parkersburg
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Exposed as a spy, and the agent of a California Democratic prankster named Richard Tuck, Miss O'Connor was put off the train in Parkersburg, W. Va., only ten hours after boarding. But however simple-minded her mission might have been, campaign newsmen, on a starvation diet of steaks and oratory, jumped at the chance to report it. In front-page stories around the U.S., they gave the Democrats' girl spy a far better ride than she had got on the Goldwater Special...
...arrived at Celcon by a process all its own and that Delrin anyhow lacks "patentable novelty." Confident Celanese opened a Celcon plant at Bishop, Texas, that eventually will have a capacity of 30 million lbs., bigger than that of Du Pont's 25-million lb. Delrin plant at Parkersburg. W.Va. Du Pont hopes to collect damages for patent infringement and to force Celanese to stop producing Celcon...
Rathbone got his interest in oil from his oilman father. Born in Parkersburg, W. Va., he served a short hitch in the Army before graduating from Lehigh University ('21), then went to work as an engineering draftsman in the Baton Rouge refinery of Standard Oil of Louisiana, a Jersey affiliate. He was made refinery manager when he was only 32, so impressed headquarters that four years later he was moved up to president of the affiliate...
Pastors in Politics. So far, there had been little talk of the candidates' religion, although much talk had been prophesied in view of the fact that West Virginia is 93% Protestant. The pastor of a United Brethren Church in Parkersburg told his flock that if Kennedy wins, "the Pope will be running the country," and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, stopping off in Charleston, doubted that a Catholic could remain independent. That was all, so far. And everyone remembered that in darkest 1928, Al Smith won West Virginia's Democratic primary (81,739-75,976) against Missouri...