Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hiram Johnson's death, he was elected to a full term in 1946. He has long advocated a strong U.S. policy in the Far East, including more aid to Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington to label him "the Senator from Formosa." This political position, plus his Pacific Coast following, equip him particularly well to balance a ticket headed by Eisenhower...
...Prudent Way. More & more states are discovering that one answer, where traffic is heavy enough, is to build roads that pay for themselves. Indiana and Illinois have tentatively outlined projects to extend the eastern super-highway route to Chicago; New York is building a 535-mile Manhattan-to-Buffalo throughway; Florida has plans for a 350-mile Jackson-ville-to-Miami speed road. Along with everything else, highway costs have been rising: Ohio's Turnpike will cost $1,300,000 per mile v. a mere $476,000 per mile for Pennsylvania's original mileage. Tolls are rising...
McInnis will probably start John Arnold, who beat Yale, 11 to 7. The game will not count in the Eastern League standings; the Crimson is firmly buried in last place, only one game below Yale...
Brown will join the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League begining with the 1953-54 season. Brown is already in the Ivy group in football, basketball, hockey, and track...
...Elis have rowed four races this season, and lost all of them, but showed marked improvement towards the end of the year. The Crimson has rowed five races, winning only the first two, but it has bettered Yale in the Eastern Sprints. The upstream course record, 19:54.2, was set by the Elis in 1949, the only four-mile race they have won since...