Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piano accompanist, predicted last September that Southern California was in for a cold, wet winter. He believes that, although the boundaries between cold and warm air masses are constantly shifting, they tend to keep average positions on the map which he calls "semipermanent boundaries." One of these lies east of the Rockies, separating cold air on the east from warm air on the coast. Last year this boundary moved west until it was out in the Pacific Ocean, letting cold air flow over California. Incidentally, last summer it also carried unusual rains into Utah and Arizona, robbing States farther east...
...live lungfish from the central take region of East Africa have been purchased by the directors and placed on exhibition for students, it was disclosed recently by Arthur Loveridge, curator of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Hoping to topple to earth favored champions from eight other colleges, Varsity grapplers will encounter the strongest opposition of the East in the thirty-third annual meet of the Intercollegiate Wrestling Association at Bethlehem, Pa., today and tomorrow...
...keep accurate check on Mother Earth, three instruments will be installed, one to record north-south tremors, one for east-west motion, and a third for up-and-diwn movements. In 1928 the Department set up a seismograph in the basement of the Geological Museum. However, the instrument was so delicate that an earthquake was recorded whenever a class was dismissed or a truck rumbled by. Even the movements of the night watchman could be traced on its record...
...biggest drugstore chain in the U. S., but the biggest money-maker is Walgreen Co. It operates fewer stores (508) than United Drug, Inc. (568), has had none of the financial headaches of that rival. United operates mostly in the East (Liggett stores) and in California (Owl stores), while Walgreen concentrates in the Midwest. In 1932 United was eager to merge with Walgreen but was turned down, and next year the Liggett-controlled chains went through bankruptcy. Walgreen prospered during Depression, even expanded. Last week, to furnish working capital for further expansion, Walgreen Co. filed with SEC a recapitalization plan...