Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...foothills. From Charlotte to Greensboro, N. C. the carpet of earth is dotted with milltowns: a single, great smoke-belching building or group of buildings surrounded by straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River...
...Confederate bonds issued by Mississippi and other southern States, and held in large part by British subjects. You do the Council a grave injustice. They have too much good sense to ask for the payment of Confederate bonds. Hopes on that score died when General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865; at best, they could not have survived the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution...