Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third son, at first hoped it had been "exaggerated." But as further reports came from New London all Texas shuddered with the story of a disaster that outranked, for horror and staggering loss of life, anything since the S. S. General Slocum burned in New York City's East River in 1904. From Houston in a chartered bus hastened the advanced classes of the Landig College of Embalming...
...which transformed New London's old wooden schoolhouse into one of the finest rural educational plants in the U. S. Still intact were the model home economics kitchens, playgrounds, sewing rooms, laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School. Whether it had leaked, in its odorless and highly explosive form, from a radiator or whether it had seeped into the unfinished school basement from the soil, no one seemed to know. The superintendent, a lean Texan of 61, sleepless and stunned...
...mixed with a tell-tale odorant that might have prevented the blast. But the most ironic product of the tragedy was right on top of the wreckage. Blown out of the ruined building was a section of blackboard on which someone had scrawled: "Oil and natural gas are East Texas' greatest mineral blessings. Without them this school would not be here, and none of us would be here learning our lessons...
...York City medical schools have for the instruction of their 495 medical freshmen, the pick of the 30,000 unknown who die annually in the metropolis. The surplus dead are placed in plain coffins and hauled by barge to one of the East River islands for burial...
...each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies (Goodyear, Firestone, U. S., Goodrich) had what seemed to be adequate inventories of rubber at favorable prices. But the future is not altogether reassuring, although possibilities of a shortage are balanced by the possibility that native planters in the Dutch East Indies will suddenly come forward with large rubber supplies...