Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proper Names. In Springfield, Ohio, Police Lieut. John Law announced his retirement. In Oceana, W. Va., the leading candidate for postmaster was Please Wright...
Room for Lots More. In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens. Said he: "Here I was with 600 acres of the best land in northern Virginia. I just decided to get ahead of Congress in this building-a-new-world business...
Double Exposure. In Washington, VA officials finally straightened out the records of the Massey twins, Laughn W. and Vaughn W., who served in the same training class, went to Europe on the same ship, served in the same unit, were promoted twice to the same grades on the same days, were wounded by the same shellburst, went to the same field hospital, were discharged from the same camp the same day, went to work for the same company and enrolled in the same business school, where they took the same courses...
...Winchester, Va., General Hoyt S. Vandenberg found time in a busy week to crown Skater Gretchen Merrill as Queen Shenandoah XXI of the annual Apple Blossom Festival. Her scepter looked like a rather graceful table...
Television's swift growth had caught many advertising men with their charts down. Last week, at the annual convention of the American Association of Advertising Agencies at Virginia Beach, Va., admen took a long look at television and found it still full of the terrors of the unknown...