Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems that most critics of Senator McCarthy in TIME are from the Eastern states. Is it because most of the Commies are in these states...
Next day London fired back a reply: sorry, but the Suez Canal base is too vital to Middle Eastern and Western defense for the British to clear out unconditionally. Britain will not evacuate unless and until she is sure that in an emergency the base would be operated efficiently for the common good...
Millionaire Friedrich Flick, onetime financier of the SS, is a German coal baron whom the allies jailed (1945-50) for using slave labor in his farflung mines. Two-thirds of Flick's holdings were grabbed by the Communist government of Eastern Germany; the rest were ordered broken up by U.S. and British trustbusters. Flick agreed to sell his majority (60%) interest in the Harpener Bergbau, and looked around for a German customer. He found none: German businessmen, strapped for cash, need all their ready capital to build new factories...
...their deaths, and their names became aviation's legends: Germany's Baron Manfred von Richthofen, who shot down 80 foemen, Ireland's "Mick" Mannock (73 kills), U.S.'s Raoul Lufbery (17 kills). Other aces survived to make their marks on the brave new world: Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker (26), "Billy" Bishop (72), World War II commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, France's Rene Fonck (75), who collaborated with Vichy, Hermann Goring (22), a celebrated suicide...
...Crimson varsity crew would be the best in the East. Four feet more and the Crimson freshman crew would be the best in the East. As it is, they are both the second-best, with the Harvard jayvee boat the third-best, as a result of the Eighth Annual Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta held today on the Potomac...