Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the saloons in Virginia City, Nev. rocked with reports that "Eastern interests" were ready to put new money into old mines of the Comstock Lode, from whose steaming depths some $700,000,000 worth of metal has been blasted since its discovery in 1859. In the purple days of the bonanza kings Virginia City was an easy-money centre of 30,000 people. Today it is a ghost town...
...Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners as the U. S. is ever likely to behold...
Travelogger Lowell Thomas: "The way is not broad, but it's long-(and it was more so 40 years ago)-from Peking through inner China, along the caravan trail of silk, past the Kunlung Mountains, Afghanistan, through Eastern Turkistan and the Khyber Pass and into India...
...CLOUDS IN THE SKIES OF THE FAR EAST ? Tom Ireland ? Putnam ($2.75). Sober, highly documented analysis of Japanese expansion, and a critical discussion of U. S. Far Eastern policy...
...TIME, April 22) but that was a shorter race and since then Al Ulbrickson had demoted the eight sophomores whom earlier in the season he had called the best crew he had ever coached, patched up a new varsity around a nucleus of last year's. Of the Eastern shells, Navy's had the best rating. Penn was a sprint crew. Syracuse, coached by 83-year-old Jim Ten Eyck, had a chance and so did Cornell. Columbia was clearly...