Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many states-including New Hampshire-have a ceiling on death claims. In West Virginia, it is $10,000; in New Hampshire, $15,000; in Connecticut, $20,000. In states without ceilings, death claims of $50,000 or more are sometimes paid. The Warsaw Convention (1929) limits compensation for death in international air flights to $8,300; there is no limit on domestic flight death claims...
...Hampshire's Styles Bridges, long a sharp-tongued critic of Administration foreign policy. Sage old Charles Eaton, top Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, agreed: "We've got a rattlesnake by the tail and the sooner we pound its damn head in, the better." Added Virginia's Democrat Harry Byrd, leader of the Dixie dissenters, "This is a time for unity, as we must...
Always, hotly competitive bartering went on, for such esoteric regionalia as jars of muddy water in which the U.S.S. Missouri had floundered off Virginia, Oklahoma snakewhips and Ford emblems missing from state police cars. The best traders, reported one, were from Texas; the worst, from Illinois ("you can palm off anything on those jerks"). Four Nebraska kids convinced some city slickers that sandburs were really porcupine eggs, and sold them...
...discontent worried husky Silas Switzer, who had come over from Virginia on orders of the International a year before. Already there had been violence-rock-throwing, punch-throwing, even gunfire and intervention by the National Guard-and now it felt as if more was in the air. "If you're thinking about violence," Si Switzer pleaded, "get down on your knees and talk to God about it-He'll give you an answer...
...bench. I like it there." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson felt much the same. "I am not a candidate for President," he announced from the deck of the carrier Midway, adding that his only desire when the long trick was over was to "go back to the hills of West Virginia for a little sleep and rest...