Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyells, Va...
...where the market would go next, few were hazarding a guess. Members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council, meeting in Hot Springs, Va. with Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, foresaw a lull in business expansion, but predicted that business will continue at a high plateau through most of 1958, though it might slip 1% or 2%. Plainly, the stock market, influenced by Wall Street's pessimism about the business scene, has already discounted a much bigger drop in business than any economist or businessman could foresee...
...BUILDING BOOM is about to start. Government has finally lifted 4% ceiling on interest it will pay to build post offices, federal courthouses and other U.S. Government structures on a ten-to-25-year lease-purchase plan, soon will ask for bids on ten structures from Albuquerque to Abingdon, Va. If bids are encouraging, Government will offer 30 more projects in December...
...symbols, there were aplenty: the Queen and Prince arrived in the U.S. from Canada, landing, in their R.C.A.F. plane near Williamsburg, Va., at a place called Patrick Henry Airport. Spaced among a dozen occasions of ceremonial pomp, they spent the day touring the old, restored towns of Williamsburg and Jamestown, which is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first permanent British settlement on American shores. Through it all, crowds of eager-eyed onlookers strained at the heavily guarded barriers, marveled at Elizabeth's cordially regal attitude, Philip's smiling nonchalance. "Say," said...
...tons of steel a year round the world−13% of the world's product. Krupp's technicians are running up 41 waterside cranes in Pakistani ports, a dozen road-bridges in Colombia, a port coal-loading device for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Newport News, Va...