Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Problem XX was for a "White" attacking force under Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus to try from mid-Atlantic to penetrate a "Black" defense under Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews. The attackers might seek to gain a military foothold anywhere in the Americas from Venezuela's eastern boundary to Norfolk, Va. Or they might seek to break through one of the many entrances to the Caribbean and attack the Panama Canal. Belief that the attackers' air forces, at least, had broken through the defense cordon grew when 150 to 175 planes swarmed over Puerto Rico. One plane crashed mysteriously into...
...Wheeling, W. Va., a 16-year-old student rifled a high-school soda shop and took away $4 in nickels. Police easily trailed him to his home, two blocks from the school. Reason: he had a hole in his pocket...
...ROSE Wheeling, W. Va...
...DUDLEY Buchanan, Va...
Young Robert Lane Anderson, who took over the Marion, Va. Democrat (circ. 1,400) and the Republican Smyth County News (circ. 1,600, both printed in the same plant) from his father, Novelist Sherwood Anderson, in 1932. An able graduate of several big city newsrooms, Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played...