Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, crewmen began unloading draggers at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market on the East River. Through the quiet streets leading to the market, giant trailer-trucks rumbled up with even bigger loads. There were cod and pollock from Massachusetts, salmon from Canada, croakers and sea bass from Maryland, lobsters from Maine, shrimp from Florida, clams and oysters from Long Island. They were put into barrels and boxes or just piled in the bins of stalls along the waterfront...
Wily old (80) Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The two oil companies had offered to pay upwards of $150 million for a 40% share in the Arabian American Oil Co.'s Saudi-Arabian concession (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Before the deal was made, Trader Gulbenkian wanted...
Rose is at his best when he forgets that he is now a V.I.P. and just chews the fat. His most readable chapter, "Some of My Best Friends Are News," is a collection of sketches of wacks he has met between Broadway and the East River. Among them...
...sophomores, Dohrmann K. Pischel '51 and Arthur W. Bingham '51, arrested Thursday night for creating a disturbance in the University Theater, were fined $3 in East Cambridge Court yesterday...
Last year's Crimson squash unit was one of the best in the east, and judging from the look of things after just two weeks of practice, Coach Jack Barnaby may well have another winning team on his hands this winter...