Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marines at Quantico, Va., will be host to over 40 national collegiate track teams and several outstanding amateur athletes in a giant track meet which should turn out to be a preliminary Olympic tryout. The Crimson squad will spend its vacation week as guests of the Marines and will enter the events "mainly for practice," Captain Art Siler said last night. No team scores will be made, although there will be individual medals awarded...
KENNETH B. ROLLINS Leesburg, Va...
Even before last week's TV plug, the kits had begun to catch on, and hundreds of laymen's groups, from the General Electric plant at Erie, Pa., to the New York Civil Air Patrol, to soldiers at Ft. Belvoir, Va., were discussing common, everyday problems of conduct. As a result of the TV promotion, the National Council's Department of the Church and Economic Life got a fat flood of requests for the kits, plans to distribute thousands by year...
...Ohio Valley in much the same way that TVA has enriched the Tennessee Valley, and it lured many heavy industries that might otherwise have settled in the Northwest, where government power is cheap, e.g., Henry Kaiser's new $120 million aluminum reduction plant at Ravenswood, W. Va...
HOME LOAN PROGRAM by the Veterans Administration, totaling $33 billion, is coming under fire from a House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee. After a 14-month investigation, the subcommittee charged widespread abuses of VA-guaranteed loans by builders and real estate operators. Among the charges: many loans were granted for non-G.I. projects, builders often overcharged on G.I. housing they did build, and bribed VA inspectors to cover...