Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...search for his target, Major Sweeney asked a naval ordnance observer, Commander Frederick L. Ashworth of Wenham, Mass., what he should do. Try Nagasaki, said Commander Ashworth. With just enough fuel left for a single bomb run, the navigator, Captain James F. Van Pelt Jr. of Oak Hill, W. Va., hit Nagasaki exactly "on the nose." The bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beaham of Houston, saw a hole in the clouds...
...Waksman found that his beloved soil bacteria had made something that killed many germs which penicillin did not affect, he took the culture to Rahway. Though half a dozen companies are making streptomycin today, the best guess is that Merck microbes, in their own temple of vats at Elkton, Va., make 40% of the U.S. output...
...Fort Lee, Va., where she is making a movie on life in the WAC. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell misjudged her timing in boarding a fast-moving truck and ended up in the infirmary with 17 stitches in her right leg. Said she: "If the accident leaves any scars, I can at least say I got them in the Army...
JACK HARTER Richmond, Va...
Assembly Line. In Madison Heights, Va., 13-month-old Martha Lula Coleman started to swallow a piece of nylon sewing thread, choked, brought up the string and a 10?-store whistle she had swallowed three months before...