Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moviemakers, sweltering through the dog days of August, were distrustful of the present and worried about the future. ¶ At Warner Bros., the list of actors under contract reached an all-time modern low of six, including Virginia Mayo. ¶ The Technicolor musical Kiss Me Kate will be released in four shapes and sizes this November: 1) small screen flat, 2) small screen 3-D, 3) large screen flat, 4) large screen 3-D. Meanwhile, many movie-men were beginning to think that 3-D was less a shot in the arm than a bump on the head: box-office...
...West Virginia Industrial and Publicity Commission...
...windup of last week's World tournament couldn't have been more spectacular if May himself had written the script. Onetime (1947) U.S. Open Champion Lew Worsham. needing a birdie on the final 410-yd., par4 hole to tie Virginia's Chandler Harper, smashed out a 270-yd. drive. He then calmly took a wedge, plopped the ball onto the green and into the hole for an eagle 2. Jubilantly aghast, Worsham murmured: "The luckiest shot I ever had." Lucky or not, it was worth $25,000 to Lew Worsham, whose 72-hole score...
...insurmountable. High freight costs can be reduced by technology. As long as four years ago, for example, Ohio's Riverlake Belt Conveyor Lines, Inc. was ready to spend $210 million on a 130-mile overhead conveyor belt to carry coal from Ohio River mines to West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania steel plants, thus cut freight costs in half. But the required state legislation has not yet been passed. Coal can be transported in other ways, e.g., by converting it into electricity near the mine site, by converting it into gas and shipping it by pipeline. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal...
Another notable comment on the Matthews affair came from Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told him, said Byrd, that the FBI knows of no minister who has been proved to be a Communist agent. To Harry Byrd, at least, this is "convincing evidence" that the Matthews charge was baseless. "If any ministers were engaged in Communist activities, it is a remarkable thing that Mr. Hoover hasn't found one who can be convicted...