Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original name was the Livestock Pavilion of the No. 1-A District Agricultural Association. But a Depression-days newsman wrote bitterly: "While people are being evicted from their homes and are walking the streets, a palace for cows is being built in Visitacion Valley." Cow Palace it has been, ever since...
...division of work and responsibility into minute parts. In this respect, government parallels industry and science. Every piece of information now involves scores, often thousands, of people. Less than a century ago, a decision could be locked in the breast of one man, e.g., in planning his Valley campaign, Stonewall Jackson withheld nearly all information even from his top subordinate, Major General Richard S. Ewell, who was heard to complain, "I tell you, sir, he's as crazy as a March hare. He has gone away; I don't know where." Today Jackson would have to parcel...
...make a deal that will give his country its first doorway into the synthetic-rubber industry. In Manhattan, Mattei signed contracts with Phillips Petroleum Co. and Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. for their processes and help in building a $75 million synthetic-rubber plant at Ravenna, in the Po Valley. It will turn out 35,000 tons of GR-S rubber and 350,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer annually from nearby methane deposits. The plant will be not only the first synthetic-rubber factory in Italy but the first in Europe to make rubber from natural...
...pistol team Wednesday won its first match since its organization last year when it out-shot the Mystic Valley Gun Club, 1005 to 1008. High scorer for the match was Kirby Scherer with 274, followed in order by Henry Pahl, Colin Doane and Lloyd Roberts...
This was the fifth match of the season for the team, which has previously lost to the Merchant Marines, Annapolis, the Coast Guard, and the Mystic Valley Gun Club. Its score has improved almost 200 points since the first match against Mystic Valley...