Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was the starting point of what was described as the greatest gold shipment of all time. Two billions in bullion, one-third of all the gold in the land, began to move 1,440 mi. to the U. S. Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door...
Japan's greatest braggart is Minister of Education Genji Matsuda. Presented to the Wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain, he promptly cabled to Japan "THE LLOYD GEORGE OF THE EAST MET THE LLOYD GEORGE OF THE WEST TODAY AND TALKED POLITICS OVER...
...Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
Last week Florida East Coast's receivers bluntly told the holders of an issue of its equipment trust bonds to come & get their 20 mountain-type locomotives, five switching engines, 200 box cars, 100 ballast cars, three passenger cars and 20 cabooses. With traffic what it was, said the receivers, the road did not need the equipment anyway. In normal times the bondholders might sell the equipment to another road. But fearing that they could do nothing with the cars and locomotives except put them in their own back yards, the bondholders protested, and a protective committee persuaded the receivers...
...Florida East Coast's dramatic move last week served to spotlight the fact that the U. S. Railroad System is rapidly losing much of the ground gained in the past year. In the first six months the railroads as a whole reported net operating income of $225,000,000, up from $154,000,000 in the 1933 half. But rising costs, notably of fuel, began to catch up with rising revenues in late spring. On July 1 the first of three wage increases totaling 10% went into effect. Last week as July reports began to trickle in, it was clear...