Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forests on these mountain ranges extending to our east and west stand on and preserve the watersheds for the swarming communities which spread out for miles to the south and are dependent on these watersheds for their water...
Biggest, best known and second oldest national park is Yellowstone, tucked up in Wyoming's northwest corner. Last week hundreds of vacationers were pouring in through its east portal, Buffalo Bill's Cody. For about 50 mi. you follow the Shoshone ("Stinking Water"), whose warm springs never let it freeze, before you are in the park proper. You bed down that night in the Government log lodge at Yellowstone Lake, fifth highest in the world. This year the guides are taking parties of four over to Shoshone Lake for a chance at the big Mackinaw trout. Molly Island...
...Horace M. Albright, a Republican, succeeded him. Mr. Cammerer, a potent Democrat in Virginia, where he lives with his wife at Lyonhurst, succeeds Mr. Albright. The Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument to himself. It was he who handled the acquisition - through State help, private grants, $5,000,000 from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation...
...high cost of refrigerated water shipments dropped into the railroads' lap the fat job of carrying the West's oranges to the consuming East. The paraffin process seemed likely to win back for the steamship companies a good share of that business, perhaps even increase consumption by lowering Eastern market prices. Untried but inviting were the new method's possibilities for lemons, limes, grapefruit, cantaloupe...
...Long Beach, Calif., in a regatta organized by Los Angeles promoters, University of Washington beat Yale, sprint champion in the East, by six feet, over the 2,000-meter Olympic course. Nearest thing to a 1933 substitute for the canceled Poughkeepsie regatta, the race was won against a crisp bow wind in 6:38 4/5 -10 sec. off the Olympic record...