Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wednesday. Major Eisenhower returned to duty at Ft. Belvoir, Va. Telephone traffic dropped from 500 calls a day to a manageable 200. Although no flowers were permitted in the President's room, bouquets from well-wishers continued to pour into the corridor just outside (after being carefully inspected by the Secret Service). The previous day, the President had remarked to his wife and son that it would be pleasant to hear some "soft music." So with a nod from the doctors, Colonel Robert Schulz, the President's military aide, brought a tape-recording machine into...
Chrysler Corp. announced that it will build near Macedonia, Ohio an $85 million body-stamping plant, with enough capacity to supply all passenger-car divisions with fenders, body panels, deck lids and doors. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. will spend $90 million to expand its Ravenswood, W. Va. sheet-and-foil plant, add to other facilities in Maryland, Louisiana and Washington. New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. decided to put out $100 million worth of new securities over the next two years to keep up with the growing population and record construction boom...
...Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Among his best-known works: Stockholm's Orpheus Fountain; St. Louis' The Meeting of the Waters, 19 life-sized figures symbolizing the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; The Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Va., 38 figures representing the reunion of friends in the world of the dead...
Deal's Off. In Beckley, W. Va., Moonshiner Major Lilly hailed a truck belonging to another home whisky brewer, wondered aloud if the driver's boss would be interested in a profitable business merger, was arrested on the spot by the driver, a Treasury agent, who was taking the truck to town to impound...
Indian Giver. Crumped the San Francisco Chronicle: "As matters stand, the poor fellow who answers the $64,000 question will be able to bank but a small hat ful . . ." The Roanoke (Va.) World-News charged the show was "an illusion-a tax snare" and argued that "Uncle Sam's role in these TV giveaways is that of an Indian giver." Even the left-wing New Republic seemed shocked by the enormity of it all, since a successful contestant ". . . would have seen the income tax people (who don't know a thing about the Bible or Shakespeare) grab...