Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carolina and a string of shifting sandbanks that make one of the most treacherous regions of the Atlantic coast lies the verdant ten-mile strip of Roanoke Island. There Sir Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White's daughter, Eleanor Dare, bore...
...three types (dessert, culinary, cider) and some 7,500 U. S. varieties are grown on a large-scale in all but nine States.† New York once (1900-08) produced 50% of the crop, but Washington now leads, producing over a sixth of the total. New York and Virginia are rivals for second, the honor going to whichever gets the better weather. Before 1870 most growing was done by farmers with small orchards. Since then growing has gradually turned to larger and larger units. Commercial orchards now range from ten to 2,500 acres, with some 40 trees per acre...
Maryland's economical Millard Tydings, who thinks with Virginia's Byrd, slipped through an amendment limiting any one State to 20% of the total to be spent. His argument: "I furthermore predict New York will receive practically all the money this bill contains." Senator Tydings found support in Robert Rice Reynolds, playboy but astute politician. Sang out Senator Reynolds: ". . . If $700,000,000 of the people's money is to be expended, I want North Carolina, God bless her, to have her part, although she does not need it particularly...
Divorced. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18, daughter of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran; from John D. Breckenridge, 22, onetime sergeant of Washington, D. C. police; in Virginia City, Nev. They eloped and were married...
...Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd announced last week that he would introduce a bill to reimburse a Smithfield ham producer for losses suffered on hams which the Post Office was unable to deliver to Republic Steel Corp. officials during the steel strike...