Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issued an executive order making it a Federal offense to ship from state to state oil produced or withdrawn from storage in violation of any state law. It was reported that 600 tank cars, awash with "hot oil," had rattled out of the great flush fields of East Texas the night prior to beat the President's order. Placed in charge of the "hot oil" order was Secretary of the Interior Ickes who had done much to get the petroleum industry on record against this brand of 'legging. He promptly issued drastic enforcement regulations which carried fines...
...lapped and lashed. At San Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped. A 42-year-old poultryman named Patrick Fallon was taken from a farm at Bridgewater, Mass. Frederick J. Persons, 16, son of an East Aurora, N. Y. bank president, told how he had run away from two men who tried to snatch him on a dark street. In Atlanta, President John K. Ottley of the First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work...
...with an aggressively cleft chin. Jan last week had done more than stand by the works for one year. Battling with amazing vigor against Depression, he had actually increased the Bat'a force of working partners and had expanded the company's outlets throughout the entire Far East. "It's a shame that 30,000,000 Indians don't wear shoes!" was the way Thomas Bat'a put it before he died. Surprisingly soon afterward the steamer Morava, owned by the House of Bat'a, docked at Bombay with 1,000,000 pairs...
...irregulars and two brigades of Japanese regulars. Four times they were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious Chinese, charged the city garrison's general with having sold...
...mechanics at Tempelhof Airdrome enraged him. "Damn it, I want to push on," he fumed, and paced the field impatiently for two hours while mechanics turned the cranks of slow fuel-pumps. Off again, Winnie Mae got to the Russian border, was driven by thunderstorms back to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, where Pilot Post grudgingly took five hours sleep, vowing not to shut his eyes again until reaching Alaska. Winnie Mae thundered out of Moscow a half-day ahead of schedule. But an oil leak was causing the robot to misbehave and Pilot Post had practically all the burden of solo...