Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which participants pay 5? or more, stand to win from $1 up by placing counters upon a numbered board, the numbers being drawn, called, and five in a row on the board winning the game. Chief Bingo operators are cinema houses, clubs, and Roman Catholic churches in the East, the first discovering that the game fills the house no matter how poor the picture, the latter two finding it a fine money-raiser for worthy causes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, .N. Y. last month outlawed Bingo in his diocese (TIME, Dec. 21), but his apostolic colleagues of the East...
...only by her determination to do nothing of the sort. By the time a satisfactory compromise is reached, Phil has worked himself up to a lieutenancy through a riotous career on a Pacific island where his most spectacular achievement is reorganizing a native village on the lines of an East Side precinct, complete with fruit stand graft for his best friend (Warren Hymer). Good shot: a native mutiny ending when Donlan picks up the spears thrown at him by the natives, entrances his assailants with a demonstration of his superior skill...
...hens in the East, the mild, muddy winter of 1936-37 has seemed enough like spring to stimulate prodigious, pre-seasonal laying. Not long after Christmas farmers found themselves with more pails of fresh eggs than they could sell. Early last month the New York egg market was glutted, wholesale prices were abnormally low, farmers were beginning to reduce chicken feed and to slaughter too-productive pullets. Meanwhile the great chain grocery stores which sell New Yorkers about one billion eggs a year were making about 11? a dozen on the spread between wholesale and retail prices. Upon this scene...
...Standard Oil of Indiana discovered an 80,000,000 bbl. reserve in Louisiana's Lafourche Parish. This week in California Barnsdall prepared to bring in a well called Rancho San Francisco No. i which may open up the biggest oil pool discovered in the U. S. since East Texas six years ago. What was more, the well was plunk in the centre of a 6,000-acre lease owned by Barnsdall alone. The new well is seven miles from Newhall in Los Angeles County, six miles from the spot where a dozen people were killed in last December...
interests in the international oil pools of the Middle East...