Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poorest were equipped as well as the best, would record about 8,000 quakes every year-nearly one an hour. Of these some 70 are major quakes. Catastrophic shocks involving heavy loss of life average a little over one a year. Despite the safety of the U. S. east of the Rockies, this country had 62 quakes of moderate intensity in 1933. Safest place in the U. S. is New York City whose ancient rocks did their slipping and sliding aeons...
...East v. West Crack players selected from Western and Eastern college teams played the tenth annual all-star benefit game at San Francisco. Irvine ("Cotton") Warburton's 72-yd. run to a touchdown was the most spectacular play of the game. Outplayed in the first half. East came back gamely but not quite enough in the second. West 19, East...
...minutes before 4 o'clock one morning last week passengers on the S.S. Havana woke up with a sharp jolt. Three hours later when they were called for breakfast they learned that hard luck had again overtaken the Ward Line. Stuck on a shoal 60 mi. east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana...
Threading its way up Manhattan's crowded East River one night last week with 126 passengers aboard, the Colonial Line steamship Lexington (New York-Providence) sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took...
Passing through Omaha on his way East, Citizen Herbert Hoover stopped off for lunch in the railway station, admitted he had gained three pounds since leaving the White House. Next day in Chicago he told newshawks: "A purely personal business trip. ... I am always sorry for the Press because I can give them no news...