Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo's live-wire, fast-growing Yominri, listed among the world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft...
...working for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein justice dwelleth." Patron of the Catholic Worker is St. Joseph, the working-class husband of Christ's Mother. A statue of him stands in the window of the Catholic Worker headquarters on Manhattan's dirty lower east side. Miss Day, Mr. Maurin and a dozen others live in this "House of Hospitality," along with some 40 indigent "guests." Every morning they feed coffee, rye bread and apple butter to 1,000 men who begin lining up at 4:30. There are about 13 such workers' groups...
...before taking off for humid Bangkok, Siam, the transfer point for Imperial Airways' shuttle service to Hong Kong. Sixth night he sleeps at Singapore, where Quantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Services) Empire Airways Ltd. takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost him $800, cut the fastest steamship time by 35 days...
...have on Imperial Airways is its Empire Air Mail Program by which, at a three cent per half-ounce rate, all mail is carried by air to South Africa, India, Hong Kong and Australia. To carry the first batch of mail at the new rate from England to the East, Imperial Airways chose a Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this year to extending...
...Rain forests," Loveridge explained yesterday, "are patches of dense forest on isolated plateaus in East Africa. They're being rapidly enroached on by plantations, and once the trees are cut, no more grow back. The sun is so hot that it practically sterilizes the ground...