Word: va
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winners are: Robert J. Allen, instructor in English; Joseph McG. J. Bottkol 5G, of Menominee, Mich.; Ronald C. Dixon 4G, of Lake George, N. Y.; Henry G. B. Halvorson 3G, of Huntington Park, Calif; Roy Lamson, Jr.; instructor in English; Louis G. Locke 3G, of Woodstock, Va.; and Chester L. Shaver 4G, of Somerset...
...When the National Press Club held its annual Anchors Aweigh party, the President motored down to Quantico, Va. to throw out the first ball in the game between Congressmen and Newshawks. Having waited at the Marines' ball park for 15 minutes in a downpour without seeing any signs of his hosts, he drove down to the dock where the party had remained weatherbound on the steamer which had brought it from Washington. On the gangplank he witnessed the presentation by Senator Tom Connally of a new Texas sombrero to Vice President Garner in restitution for one Mr. Garner lost...
...moment's notice, concentrate at any point in the U. S. to fight off attackers. Regarded as the most important development since the War in the modernization of U. S. military forces, it is divided into Eastern, East Central and Western Wings, operating from bases at Langley Field, Va., Barksdale Field, La. and Hamilton Field, Calif. Under President Roosevelt's strong national defense program it has grown rapidly in size and importance since its organization in 1935. At present its fighting strength consists of 430 officers, 2,500 men and 350 of the Army...
...fairway, rolled to a stop. Officials noted its exact position: 313 yd. 17 in. from the spot where it had been hit. That drive, hit last Sunday afternoon before a big gallery of other professionals, got its author, 24-year-old Professional Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., $200, first prize in Sports Illustrated'?, first annual driving contest, held as a curtain-raiser to the Professional Golfers Association annual tournament which started the next...
Down the placid waters of broad Chesapeake Bay from Washington last week churned two boatloads of aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to the brick and grass coziness of Old Point Comfort, Va. to attend the twelfth annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carefully watched by soldiers and with cameras forbidden, they were driven to Langley Field to be chaperoned physically by NACA's Secretary John Victory and mentally by NACA's Research Director Dr. George William Lewis through the world's greatest collection of wind tunnels, to see what the finest...