Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cure. In Lynchburg, Va., Lawrence Tweedy sued his doctor for $20,000, charged him with administering treatment that removed Tweedy's case of athlete's foot-and his big toe with...
...Captain Stark radioed the Washington traffic control tower and asked if he could come in "on contact" (fly within sight of the ground). When Washington flashed an O.K., Stark started down from 7,000 feet. At 6:13, when he had passed over Martinsburg, W. Va., and was almost clear of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Stark made his last report-3,000 feet and still descending (through rain and fog) for a look at the ground. After that, Flight 410 was heard no more...
Married. Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 24, only son of the U.S. Army's chief of staff; and Barbara Jean Thompson, 20, a colonel's daughter; both for the first time; at Fort Monroe, near Norfolk, Va...
...Aitkin, Minn. 4. Southanna, Va...
...Storer College at Harpers Ferry, W. Va., has a magnificent view of the Potomac gap, which Thomas Jefferson thought was ". . . worth a voyage across the Atlantic." On Storer's campus stands the Arsenal that John Brown held for 60 hours. Moved from the site in downtown Harpers Ferry where Major Robert E. Lee captured Old Osawatomie, it was presented to the college...