Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inglis, Jr., of South Euclid, Ohio; Henry Touchman Levin of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Robert Caffrey Liddon Jr., of Corinth, Mississippi; Knight Warner McMahan, of Flora, Illinos; Isadore Paisner, of Brookline, Peter Shuebruk, of Cohasset; Robert Chester Smith, Jr., of Detroit, Michigan; Andrew Joseph Torrielli, of Watertown; Bort Arthur Winter, of East Cleveland, Ohio...
...beating the 8½-day globe record of Post & Gatty he now was trying to make the best possible solo record, yet heeding the cabled exhortations of his backers to "take it easy and play it safe." Sorriest mishap of Mattern's flight across the steppes occurred east of Omsk when a fuel line in his Lockheed plane broke. Dizzy and nauseated from breathing gas fumes. Pilot Mattern set his ship down at the coal mining settlement of Belovo, so groggily that it cracked the stabilizer. He lost a day and a half there before mechanics, flown from Novosibirsk...
...SLEEPERS EAST - Frederick Nebel- Little, Brown...
...Dashiell Hammett had written Grand Hotel, the result might have been something like Sleepers East. Author Nebel cannot command Hammett's sulphurous and suspense-laden style, but he has fitted together a first-rate melodrama, whose plot is more cunningly joined than Grand Hotel's, its suspense and climax better managed. Sleepers East is headed for a brisk trip, with Hollywood one of its way-stations...
...drove the train recklessly through the storm. The conductor was worried. At Avondalc they had to stop to pick up a single passenger- Everett Jason, a long-repressed model husband who was methodically running away from his wife. Martin Knox, criminal lawyer, was bringing a secret star witness back East: red-headed Lena Karelsen, whose evidence would free his gunman client, smash the political ring. Three people were on Knox's trail: Representative Tom Linscott, mouthpiece of the ring, Newspaperwoman Ada Robillard, once Knox's mistress but now Linscott's fiancée, Private Detective Izzard, whose...