Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Incers leaving on long U.S. vacation trips. Sometimes a trip is a combination of business and pleasure. An example is the trip which the bureau recently organized for TIME Lecturer John Scott. With his wife and daughter, he left for a 14-week tour of 14 European and Middle Eastern countries to gather new material for his talks. Among other things, the bureau had to get 21 separate visas by the time the Scotts' plane left...
...four assistants to help her with foreign and domestic travel orders. Penny Keefe, whose father was a civil engineer and introduced her to the rigors of travel at an early age, handles the foreign requests. The three girls who work on domestic travel are Lucretia Tate, a onetime Eastern Air Lines representative ; Elaine Goloven, who worked with Eastern before joining the travel department of a British company; and Frances Stubbs, who learned the job starting as a bookkeeper in the Travel Bureau...
...highest percentage of centenarians is in parts of the country where the stress and strain of living are supposed to be greatest," e.g., along the Eastern seaboard from Boston to Charleston and along the Mississippi, and not in such havens for the aging as California or Florida...
...reported three hospitals in Scotland. Some victims may have suffered permanent damage to the macula (the point of clearest vision at the retina's center), in the future would see well only out of the corner of the eye. Two-thirds of the reported cases were in eastern Scotland, where skies were clearest. Doctors in the U.S., where the eclipse could be seen only during early-morning hours, have so far reported only three cases of eye damage, none of them serious...
...readjustments were still being made in many an industry. In the petroleum industry, sales have not come up to summer estimates. As a result of overproduction, wholesale gasoline prices skidded on the Gulf Coast and Eastern seaboard, and retail-gas wars were flaring up east of the Rockies. The Texas Railroad Commission (which controls the state's oil production) announced that it had cut August allowables to 2,721,104 barrels a day because of a drop in demand...