Word: va
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leaders have helped bring U.S. agriculture to the most bountiful state ever known to any civilization, and in so serving their nation they have served themselves. Examples: 1938's Star Farmer, Hunter Roy Greenlaw, found himself at 16, when his father died, running his family farm near Fredericksburg, Va.; he has built up his property from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid $15,000 for the property he now values at $55,000, lives...
SYNTHETIC-RUBBER will get the Government off the hook on its $18 million wartime installation at Institute, W. Va. Though no one bid on the plant when 15 firms paid out $310 million for 24 smaller rubber plants (TIME, Feb. 7), the synthetic market has expanded so fast that six companies think they can handle the Institute plant's 122,000 longton annual capacity, have put in firm bids...
...Very Progressive." In nearby North Springfield, Va., the businesslike Russians inspected a big new tract of mass-built, medium-priced ($14,000-$18,000) houses. On the way, they commented on the lack of flowers along the roads, later expressed amazement that so many trees had been cut down at the building site. "In Russia," one of them said, "anyone who cuts down a tree without permission is heavily fined...
...wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington, Va...
...turn his vacation-time doodlings on the beaches of Long Island into one of the liveliest and most pleasant new sculptured ideas of the decade. Last week Nivola's growing reputation got another big boost. National Memorial Park, across the river from Washington in Falls Church, Va., which already boasts the late Carl Milles' 38-figure Fountain of Faith (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 27), unveiled its second major sculpture grouping: Nivola's $50,000 memorial fountain dedicated to the four World War II Army chaplains* who gave their life jackets to enlisted men and went down with...