Word: williamsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
...immediate goal of the Plymouth citizens is to have a scale model of the first settlement ready for exhibition by May 30. The finished reproduction will be on the line of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia...
...civilian economist employed by the Army in Berlin. Ten months after her husband's death in a plane crash in Paris, Mrs. Power had still not received his insurance. The President ordered the Veterans Administration to get hopping. The VA grumbled, but hopped. Then the President boarded the Williamsburg for a daylong, family cruise across the green gulf waters to the Dry Tortugas...
...President loafed, the Williamsburg cruised leisurely up Chesapeake Bay, through the canal to Delaware Bay, and slipped into the open ocean for the trip to Hampton Roads...
Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...