Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion-dollar Military Assistance Program (MAP) for the North Atlantic Treaty powers was finally moving. Almost a year after the signing of the grand alliance in Washington (April 4, 1949), the first shipment-48 U.S. Navy fighter and bomber planes for France-was made from Norfolk, Va. this week. From now on, the flow of U.S. arms to Europe would be steady and, the Western world hoped, steadying...
Forty law students are standing by ready to give blood transfusions to Vincent F. Leahy 2L, suffering from a bleeding ulcer at West Roxbury VA Hospital. Twelve men have donated their blood...
Inside a pink granite Masonic temple in Alexandria, Va. dedicated to the memory of George Washington, Harry Truman went to work. There will be no new peace overtures to Russia, he made clear, no "parley at the summit" as proposed by Winston Churchill. Strength, not more talk, is what is needed to bring the Kremlin to an honest settlement...
...candlelit Governor's Palace at restored Williamsburg, Va., a string ensemble played Mozart, liveried footmen served fruit punch, and 200 visitors swapped the latest ideas about antiques. It was the 19th and final night of the second annual forum on antiques, sponsored by Colonial Williamsburg Inc. and the magazine Antiques. Lock, stock & rocking chair, Antiques' Editor Alice Winchester and most of her staff had traveled to Williamsburg to pick up a few ideas themselves. Last week they were back at work in their modern Manhattan offices, getting ready to tell their readers all about it in a forthcoming...
...Douglas to buck Arthur. Unreasonably terrified by the threat of big-city competition, Godfrey convinced Butcher that he should stay on the air all night to kill Douglas' first broadcast. Since WJSV closed down at midnight, Godfrey had to broadcast from the transmitter in a swamp near Alexandria, Va., with no other props than a telephone, turntable and some records...