Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airport in East Farmingdale, L. L. Captain Ugo V. D'Annunzio son of the late Italian Poet-Flyer Gabriele D'Annunzio, stalled the engine in his airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...
...from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
Last week, for showing this old rabble-rouser at his East Orange, N. J. cinema theatre, retired big-league Baseball Pitcher Adolph J. ("Otto") Rettig faced the possibility of three years in jail, a fine of $5,000. The complaint: violation of a State statute, passed in 1935 to curb Nazi activity, forbidding any representation that "incites, counsels, promotes, advocates or symbolizes hatred, violence or hostility against any group of persons by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship." The complainants: representatives of some 5,000 East Orange Negroes...
Richard C. W. Fisher -- Miss Marian Maynard, East Greenwich...
...producers felt it was too good to last. More important still-despite increasing demand, proration figures have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum Institute in April stated that 2,600,000 barrels a day (except for California, which has no proration laws) would be about right. The States east of California have actually been producing almost 2,700,000 barrels. As a result, refineries have built up immense inventories- 92,000,000 barrels of gasoline in March...