Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prominent Virginian admitted last week that he had failed to pay his state taxes by the Jan. 15 deadline and that the state tax commissioner had sternly penalized him $25. "An oversight," was the mortified explanation of T. Coleman Andrews, who had hastily paid up his tax and fine. As U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Andrews was so busy collecting federal taxes, he explained, that he clean forgot about his annual obligation to his home state...
...talking but reserved individual with a solid record of railroading behind him. The son of Dutch immigrants, he started out as an Erie Railroad clerk when he left the Ridgewood, N.J. high school, became a division superintendent by the time he was 30. Eleven years later, in 1938, the Virginian Railway hired him away and made him a vice president. In 1941 he moved into the presidency of the ailing Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, cut down heavy overhead costs by merging 18 subsidiary lines into the system, built up profits and enabled the Lackawanna in 1948 to pay its first...
DIESELIZATION of U.S. railroads continues apace. Latest convert: the Virginian Railway, one of the biggest still using coal-burning locomotives. It wants to buy 25 big diesel engines, will use them for freight and mine-switching service in the West Virginia coal fields...
...Flemish paintings, including such masterpieces as Hieronymous Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony, Aelbert Cuyp's Horsemen Halting on a Road, Pieter Bruegel's The Carnival. Next week the artmobile will take off on a statewide tour (possibly three years) with stops planned so that no Virginian will have to travel more than 15 miles to see the show. At the wheel: Curator-Driver William Gaines, Virginia Museum art expert who trained for his job by taking lessons in truck driving from a Richmond express firm...
...quiet, courtly Virginian of deep religious faith and independent character, the cloud was a vindication of a rather lonely fight-a vindication he was the last to want. When he heard the news about the Russian explosion of a "thermonuclear device," Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 57, new chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, informed the other four AECommissioners, and then started working day & night to speed the U.S.'s own thermonuclear bomb production program. Not much was said, but AEC was keenly aware of two fateful facts of U.S. history: 1) had it not been for Lewis Strauss...