Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detroit got the strongest sniff (see below). U.S. department store-sales, after one of the best Easter seasons on record, were up 10% over last year's in the last week of April, helping to push seasonally adjusted sales for the month to a new April record. Sales were running 17% ahead of last year's in the New York area, 16% in Cleveland, 11% in Atlanta, 7% in Chicago. The consumer has shaken his earlier caution about buying on credit; consumer installment credit is still climbing, after a seasonally adjusted $408 million gain in March, that brought...
...scene during one of his evening rambles about the London suburb of Richmond, the youngster was entranced. There was a dark lane leading through weathered buildings to the Thames. Paul sketched it a few times, finally painted it when the streets were wet and the sky leaden. At Easter, when his father, an art teacher, was packing up some of his own canvases for the annual Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, he suggested that Paul send in something too, and Paul chose Water Lane, Richmond. "Have a bash." his father said...
...weeks the refugee flow had been increasing. Suddenly, over the Easter weekend, it became a torrent. In four days, more than 4,200 East Germans, carrying their meager belongings in sacks and briefcases, showed up in West Berlin and at West German border points. It was the biggest exodus since the 1953 revolt in East Germany. All last week hundreds more arrived daily as harried West Berlin officials hastily arranged special flights to move them out of the city...
...could keep one cow and a few chickens and pigs for me and my family. I asked what they meant to give me for my land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping bag, let his wife out the front door, locked it and slipped through a window. Two days later they made it across the border...
...bringing all shopkeepers, craftsmen and professional people into collectives, hundreds of townspeople like carpenters, lawyers and merchants were fleeing westward. One woman explained that she had fled "because of the kids." Her little boy had just started school, and "he was turning into a real little Communist. When Easter came, I brought him to West Berlin, not telling him why. Sure enough, first thing he did was squawk that we had gone over to the Nazis and that we had left Grotewohl and Pieck just when they needed...