Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. Of the 27 Government-owned synthetic rubber plants (cost: $500 million; book value: $160 million), the six biggest, heart of the Government's monopoly, were sold; contracts were ready for signing for 20 other plants. (Only one small copolymer plant, at Institute, W. Va., was not bid on.) The first buyers...
GENEVIEVE CLARK THOMSON Gaylord, Va...
Last week at Newport News, Va., Mrs. James Forrestal, widow of the first Secretary of Defense, christened the supercarrier, named in her husband's honor. The dreamboat, wide enough to have the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth placed side by side on her flight deck, moved 35 feet in a flooded drydock. In a year she would be ready for action. The Forrestal's cost, with planes: more than a third of a billion dollars (about $372 million). The Navy has three more supercarriers on order, plans another in the upcoming budget, hopes eventually...
Since his Feb. 9, 1950 speech at Wheeling, W. Va., McCarthy has accused scores of Government employees of being Communists. But of these, only one man, former State Department Official Val Lorwin, was indicted. Lorwin turned out to be a lifelong antiCommunist, and the case against him was dismissed. In addition, indictments have been returned against three persons charged with contempt of the McCarthy committee...
With water pushing through the turbines at the rate of 176,500 cu. ft. per second, the Rance Valley project will produce an annual 550 million kw-h of electricity-enough to supply the needs of a city about the size of Richmond, Va. Estimated completion date...