Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adjourned to Nov. 7 with the traditional cry of "Who Goes Home?" after refusing to debate seriously the most important issue raised last week in the house: Japan's cutthroat competition by means of her depreciated yen with British textile manufacturers in the Far East market...
...falls in love with young Guy Crane (Franchot Tone) whose land lies next to Storrhaven but there is nothing to be done about it because neither she nor Guy want to hurt Guy's wife. At the end of the story, Grandpa is dead, Guy is going East to teach, Louise is staying on at Storrhaven...
...only 21 hr. (his record time for 15,596 mi.: 7 days 18 hr. 49 min.). His "slowness" he blamed on inept Berlin mechanics who, instead of fueling Winnie Mae in 20 min., had held him there more than three hours, so that he got caught in storms over East Prussia and had to turn back. He raged: "I'm still burning up about that, and I won't soon forget...
...miles east of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., famed socialite-racing-gambling-health resort where the cornerstone of a new spa building was laid last fortnight (TIME, July 24), lies Schuylerville, once called Saratoga, whose inhabitants were massacred by French & Indians in 1745. One mile west of Saratoga Springs lies Ashgrove Farm, Edward Barber Ashton's "million-dollar" turkey ranch...
...American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge of a Pan American East Greenland Expedition with a base camp about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University of Michigan Pan American Airways West Greenland Expedition, commanded by Dr. Ralph Belknap, worked out of three bases. Last August Watkins was drowned when his kayak capsized but his party carried on under his aide...