Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ebenezer Zane, a hardy Marylander, contracted to clear a bridle path across lower Ohio in return for a land grant of 3 sq. mi.-a transaction authorized by Congress and executed by President George Washington (who owned vast tracts in eastern Ohio himself). Part of Zane's Trace became in time the National Road (now U.S. Highway 40), which linked the East with the wide-open Midwest and helped populate Ohio with a swarm of new settlers (250,000 in ten years alone). Last week, some 100 miles to the north, Ohio completed a new kind of link between...
...August 1915, Lieut. John Harding led a platoon against the Turks at Gallipoli, where British forces, too little and too late, were defeated. This week Harding, now a field marshal and retiring chief of the Imperial General Staff, returned to the eastern Mediterranean to repair the damage done in Cyprus by too little diplomacy too late. Sir John's appointment as governor of Cyprus, the headquarters of Britain's Middle East armed forces, was notice that Britain meant to crack down on violence stirred up in the name of enosis (union) with Greece...
MEXICAN NATURAL GAS will soon be supplied to U.S. markets in quantity for the first time. Pemex (Mexico's national oil and gas company) has signed a deal with Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to export between 100 million and 200 million cu. ft. of methane gas daily from Reynosa, Mexico through pipelines to Eastern U.S. consumers...
...first planes will be delivered in August 1958, and the entire fleet will be in service by July 1959. If Eastern exercises its option, the remaining 30 planes will be in service by November...
...then, says Rickenbacker, he will have a fleet of 218 multiengined airliners-60 jet and turboprop "express liners," 60 local-service twin-engined ships, plus 98 four-engined "super air-coach" planes. All told, the fleet will treble Eastern's current carrying capacity to 20 million passengers annually flying 15 billion miles. Says Rickenbacker: "Air transportation should make more progress in the next ten years than we have been able to accomplish in the past...