Word: va
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Patton's Third Army when it outran its supply lines during the August 1944 Allied breakthrough in France. Red Ball Express (railroadese for top priority freight) captures some of the excitement of its subject through wartime combat film pieced out with action scenes shot at Fort Eustis, Va...
Piloting the Coal Queen, from Morgantown, W. Va. downstream (north) to Pittsburgh, took a little doing, what with pushing barges through the locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some...
...Avenue Methodist Church Portsmouth, Va...
...plaque "in memory of white men of Charles City County [Va.] who gave their lives in World Wars I & II" was banned from the county courthouse by local authorities as "discriminatory" because it omitted the names of one Indian and ten Negro veterans. The local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which had sponsored the memorial, held a dedication service for it anyhow. "If anything, we are being discriminated against," said a chapter member. Chapter President Mrs. A. G. Copland added: "We thought the colored people would like to recognize their servicemen with a plaque of their...
House Guest. In Newport News, Va., Bobby Aycock, 42, turned over to police by a married couple who came home and found him asleep in their bed, explained: "I guess I lost my way. I normally sleep about eight blocks farther uptown...