Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MEDFORD Norfolk, Va...
...endowed with the heretical habit of favoring economy in Government, was still sniffing and measuring away. Without even touching the vast funds ticketed for national defense, he thought he detected $4 to $6.5 billion of possible fat: $100 million of general Government expenditures, $300 million in the VA, maybe $200 million in agriculture, $150 million in conservation programs, another $150 million in the Government-loan field, down to countless hundreds of thousands that could be saved by buying cheaper cars for Government officials and cheaper paper for Government clerks...
...Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s yards at Sparrows Point, Md. and Quincy, Mass.; and Sun Oil Co.'s Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester...
After serving 35 months, former Major General Bennett E. Meyers, cashiered from the Army and sentenced to 20 months to five years for wartime contract graft, walked out of the federal reformatory at Lorton, Va. to face another charge. For 1941 he reported a net income of $3,808.70, but the Government figured it was nearer...
About 35 years ago, Baptist Pastor Galloway moved to the sparsely populated farm country of Arlington, Va. and bought himself an acre of land for $300. First he built a shack to live in. Then he built a frame church, with a small pool handy so that everybody could get baptized "good and proper." But Arlington