Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both sides were vulnerable. At the table at which Lochridge & Frey were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt, Lochridge & Frey reached a contract of six hearts which Mr. Lochridge (East) failed to make by one trick. While von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt were thus earning their side 100 points, their partners were doing even better. At the table where Karn (East) & Sims were playing Burnstine & Schenken, the bidding also reached six hearts but Mr. Karn set out for his contract more shrewdly than Mr. Lochridge had done in the same situation. When Mr. Burnstine (North) played the queen of diamonds on the dummy...
...Royal Mail, effected last August, Lord Essendon played a lead part. One-half of Royal Mail's one and one-half million tons of shipping were grouped into two new operating subsidiaries, one combining services to Africa's west coast, one to South America's east coast. Lord Essendon became head of the South American group. Famed Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. serving Capetown and Africa's east coast, Lamport & Holt, owner of the ill-fated Vestris, and White Star continued to operate as separate Royal Mail subsidiaries...