Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Works. In Arlington, Va., a painter outside a beauty shop sprayed an air intake, inadvertently turned the hair of eight customers under the dryers a bright...
...consider the so-called "bonanza" of some $200,000,000 to be doing all right by us. We prefer lower prices, adequate housing, a VA free of politics, an FEPC, an increased minimum wage, and a guaranteed annual wage...
...informing against the three prisoners who planned to escape, not guilty of hitting four of his accusers, but guilty of beating two of them. Last week, it gave him just about the stiffest sentence it could: ten months in the Navy's Retraining Command (correction school) at Norfolk, Va., to be followed by dishonorable discharge...
Collecting customers was harder, until Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. bought a comprehensive cross-section for Williamsburg, Va. Nowadays museum directors come from Wichita and even Hawaii to buy Edith Halpert's wares, at markups ranging from 100 to 1.000%. They do their choosing behind closed doors in her Downtown Gallery (in midtown Manhattan), which specializes in such U.S. contemporaries as Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Jack Levine, while turning its real profits from folk...
...Crash. There was only one break in this pastoral routine. This week, Harold Stassen flew to Flat Top, W. Va., for a long-planned engagement to address the reunion of the famed Lilly family.* Standing on windswept Flat Top Mountain, he told thousands of Lillyans of his interview last spring with Generalissimo Stalin in the Kremlin. He said Stalin asked him if he expected an economic crash in the U.S. and that he replied: "No, I am confident that we have found the way to improve our system of government. We are determined to find a way to bring prices...