Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major ovations of his life, Hamburg voted less than 4 to i for Hitler, lowest majority of any great city in the Reich. Berlin also was far below the national average, voted 5 to 1. Leader Hitler made his best showing in the rural regions of East Prussia, Pomerania and Franconia...
Across 1,000 miles of Asia's bandit-infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo...
...charges Soviet editors produced the latest operating report of Comrade Julius Rudy, manager of C. E. R.. to the joint Soviet-Manchukuo Board of Directors. Fearing that Japanese might intercept his report, Manager Rudy carried it personally onto Soviet soil at Khabarovsk, proclaimed the following list of "Wild East" outrages on his line since...
...Back East once more with another job, Slim, now a seasoned lineman, finds his toughest assignment while Red meets the fate of many another good lineman while working with "hot" wire. Brokenhearted, Slim shelves construction for work on an electric railroad. The depression comes. Construction ceases and maintenance is cut to the minimum. Slim, during one of his periodic spells in the hospital, has fallen in love with his nurse. But when she tries to get him to take a softer job, he rebels. Even out of work Slim remains the heroic lineman. They would need him, he figures, even...
...hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...