Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island, Drama-critic Percy Hammond managed to telephone in from East Hampton that he had eaten his last can of salmon. Just north of him, at Montauk Point, the heavy seas ripped half of the New London ferry dock away...
...gold flow put an immense strain on U. S. Assay offices as importers, eager for profit, dumped hoards of foreign gold upon them. Chief receiving office was the chaste granite building which stands on the Manhattan waterfront looking across the East River to Brooklyn. There weighers and assayers fell four and five days behind in their work of testing, weighing, melting gold into ingots 7 in. by 3½ in. by 1⅜-in., each weighing 35 lb., worth $14,700. Because of the delays in the Assay office the newly arrived gold did not appear on Treasury statements until...
...Krupp supplied many a gun with which Belgian and Russian soldiers slaughtered German troops at the outbreak of the War. Though forbidden by the Versailles Treaty from making armaments, this famed German company is today rearming Germany and doing a good-sized munitions export business to the Far East and South America...
...publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish green...
...course. Lieut. Charles P. Hollstein was heading east over the Allegheny '"Hell Stretch" with mail from Cleveland to Washington. His radio, which the Army had less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...