Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROBERT L. SMITH East Chicago...
...painting divisions in Chicago have been notable from the start for a higher average of professional competence. Apparent reason: making a living is harder in Chicago, more first-raters rate relief. Last week's 12,000 visitors, sauntering down the nine cool galleries of the Institute's east wing, found scarcely a boondoggling brush stroke...
...Army freight transport Meigs zigzagged all night in a light rain, sending up flares and fingering the dark water with her searchlights. Late the next afternoon, 400 miles east of San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines, she came upon a vast patch of gasoline and oil, like rainbow-tinted gossamer rising and falling on the Pacific swells. She radioed her discovery to Manila. Airmen guessed that under the oil patch, in 5,000 fathoms, were 15 dead men and a handsome $450,000 airplane, the Hawaii Clipper...
...West Indies. A good weekly wage for a field hand on a banana plantation is $3. Year ago there was a boatmen's strike in Montego Bay. Since then, Jamaica has been simmering like coffee in a percolator. Last winter cane-cutters on the sugar plantations at the east end of the island refused to work. The strike spread down the railroad to Kingston. Longshoremen, street cleaners, tobacco workers, bus drivers, lamp-lighters struck at once. Police were jittery, fired on crowds in the streets. The strikes were won, but some dozen Negroes were killed. For five months there...
...Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According to the study, the average Southern cotton mill worker gets a weekly wage of $15.52, compared to $20.34 in the East. Living costs in the East were found to be only 5.8% higher than the South, while average weekly earnings...