Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much more competition would Reynolds' big, bluff president Richard S. Reynolds give Alcoa? With Hurricane Creek, Reynolds now has a capacity of 1,755 million lbs. of alumina v. Alcoa's 2,100 million lbs. In production of virgin aluminum, Alcoa still outstrips Reynolds. But Reynolds has enough excess alumina capacity to make SPB feel that aluminum plants are no longer dependent on Alcoa...
...Virgin of Quinche (rhymes with keen shay), a rejected piece of religious statuary which a sculptor had traded to the Indians of Ayacachi in 1586 for a few pieces of lumber, was credited with miraculous powers. She could cure fistulas and the pox and prevent disasters as well. Last week the Virgin of Quinche figured in the greatest railway disaster in Ecuador's history...
North of Quito, an old, worn-out locomotive huffed and puffed its way through steep mountain passes, carrying faithful Quitenos on their annual pilgrimage to the Virgin's upland shrine. Eating, singing and chattering pilgrims jammed the seats and aisles of the ancient wooden coaches, clung to roofs, windows and couplings...
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra proclaimed a national day of mourning. Neighboring countries rushed plasma and medicines. Railway men doubted that even Quinche's famed Virgin could prevent railway disasters until Ecuador could buy new rolling stock and spare parts from...
...first time in his life, Joe Vitolo felt important. He told his friends, and those who were afraid to scoff followed him to the hill next evening. Sure enough, the Virgin Mary was there again; Vitolo saw her, though none of the others...