Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arlington, Va...
Fredericksburg, Va...
Pinch Hitter. In Fredericksburg, Va. Bakery Operator Edwin Young, annoyed at the damage done to rolls and loaves by customers testing their freshness, posted a sign: "The merchandise on this table is always fresh. If you must squeeze something, please call the manager...
Salesman Current, appointed business manager, found a complete newspaper plant for sale at Charleston, W. Va. Able Editor Bob Barton, who had also quit the News, was lured back from the Cleveland Plain Dealer as the Citizen's editor; 76 other News staffers and 130 of 164 News carrier boys came to work for the new paper. "It's just like the News had picked up and moved," exulted one reporter. Salesmen signed up their old clients. Circulation men built an advance readership...
...hear them tell about it back home, nothing is more odious to the governors of the several states than the concentration of power in Washington. But last week, gathered at historic Williamsburg, Va. for the 49th annual Governors' Conference, they heard President Eisenhower propose that the Federal Government should relinquish some of its responsibilities in favor of the states. The governors reacted as though he were trying to hand them a sockful of scorpions...