Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once East of the Panama Canal the Pacific Fleet will be joined by two new aircraft carriers, four battleships, seven light cruisers, seven destroyers of the newly formed Atlantic Squadron. A cardinal principle in Navy strategy has long been that "the Fleet" should largely remain together, ready to move as a unit and at maximum strength to any threatened point. Whether the Atlantic Squadron is to grow into a separate Fleet is a matter of dispute...
...Mayo Landing, Canada, in Yukon Territory, thermometers reached 58° below zero. Minot, N. Dak. and Bemidji, Minn, experienced 32° below. Iowa, Illinois and the Lake States went under snow blankets as frigid air masses rolled south and east to the Atlantic...
...Ledger: the Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. of Canton, Ohio. President Louis Herbert Brush has owned the small Salem News since 1901. In 1923 he teamed up with Roy Donald Moore to buy the Marion Star from Warren Gamaliel Harding. Other Brush-Moore papers are in Canton, Portsmouth, East Liverpool, Steubenville, Ironton (half interest), Ohio; Salisbury and Wicomico...
Christmas in pastoral Bessarabia is visiting time. This Christmas a bitter, blizzardy Rumanian winter swept down off the Carpathians but the quaint railway cars that spin from Kishinev down to Galatz, Braila and Bucharest were thronged with festive, gaily-cloaked peasants visiting from village to village. East of Galatz two holiday trains sped along the winding, single-track line in a blinding storm. Someone had blundered, for they were running head on toward each other. Near Reni they crashed. For hours the dying lay with the dead in the heaping snow while rescue trains ploughed through from Galatz. Late Christmas...
...More rugged than Brazil's coastal slopes are the rocky volcanic upjuts that wall Mexico City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled...