Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Cleveland, Ohio...
...rears abruptly in the great earth-wrinkles of the Appalachian Highlands, stretching northeast to southwest from New England to Alabama. When early U. S. settlers pushed out from the coast into this rugged region, they built their towns, for purposes of commerce, on the narrow-valleyed rivers which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation's population in 5% of its area. But in many...
Founded in 1924 by a Chicago Negro named Anthony Overton, Victory had an uninspiring record until a few years ago when control moved East to New York City's Harlem. Founder Overton, who made a tidy fortune selling cosmetics, bleaching lotions and hair straighteners to his fellow blackamoors, also ran a bank, Chicago's defunct Douglass National, only national bank ever chartered by Negroes. Then regarded as the No. U.S. Negro financier, Overton sluiced a considerable amount of Victory's funds into stock in his ailing bank. Upshot was that Victory lost its licenses in a number...
...principal prop of highgrade dressmaking. On the other side was Wm. Filene's Sons Co., famed Boston department store, which had brought suit charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Back of Filene's stood Associated Merchandising Corp., largest co-operative buying organization for department stores in the East. The National Retail Dry Goods Association had made the same conspiracy charge in a letter sent to its 5,000 members. To many a dress manufacturer the Filene suit meant that a stability achieved after years of effort was in serious danger of legal upset. To retailers everywhere...
Like its bigger competitor, General Electric, Westinghouse spraddles the entire field of electrical equipment. At its tremendous East Pittsburgh works it can make anything from waterwheel generators for Boulder Dam to complete power and control apparatus for steel rolling mills. At Derry, Pa. and Emeryville, Calif, it fabricates porcelain insulators. The Chicopee Falls (Mass.) plant turns out radio equipment. The Newark (N. J.) plant manufactures metres. Power transformers and transmission equipment are produced at Sharon, Pa. Diesel-electric units, steam turbines, marine reducing gears emerge from the South Philadelphia works. A Long Island City (N. Y.) plant specializes...