Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Biological Survey proved its impartial vigilance when Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, good New Dealer, was summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal district court, answer charges of misbehavior on his Eastern Shore estate last duck-hunting season. The triple-barreled charge: 1) failure to plug his repeating shotgun to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have a Federal stamp on his hunting license; 3) shooting over a baited area. Maximum penalty on each count: $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
...possible that Eastern publications are still wont to minimize the accomplishments of a Midwestern team even though it might be defending a matter so local and provincial as a national championship...
...Hindenburg rose from her moorings at Lakehurst, N. J., for her tenth,and final 1936 crossing of the Atlantic eastward. Just before she soared away her massive designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, celebrated a summer of perfect performance with a bit of perfect publicity. On an invitation cruise over six Eastern States he carried 84 potent U. S. industrialists, Government officials and financiers, as a demonstration of lighter-than-air transport to those best able to do something about...
...Among those who could and did were Cord Corp.'s President Lucius B. Manning, TWA's President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, Admiral William H. Standley, No. 1 U. S. sailor, and those two inveterate tourists, young Nelson...
...Eastern terminus of International Railways, best port in Guatemala and shipping point for most of United Fruit's Guatemalan bananas, is Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean. In 1927 a United Fruit subsidiary got a concession from the government allowing it to build new ports on the Caribbean and the Pacific. For International Railways a new port on the Gulf of Amatique, competing with Puerto Barrios, would be a serious matter, for in the past few years United Fruit has shipped more and more bananas overland from the Pacific Coast to Puerto Barrios on the International. Thus, bananas reach...