Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crucial deadlock the President called operators and miners to the White House. As a prelude to ordering them to reach agreement (see p. 20), he reminded them that a lot of his family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes...
...House of Commons Prime Minister Chamberlain assured the Soviet Union that any Russian guarantees given in Eastern Europe would not be expected to be operative until the British and French marched-in other words, that Britain and France would not leave the Soviet Union holding...
Enter Goring. Since General Goring took control of the entire German economy in 1936, the Nazis have made some progress towards their goal of Wartime self-sufficiency in Central and Eastern Europe. Low-grade iron ores are being worked by the State-owned Hermann Goring Iron Works; by 1940 the Nazis expect that perhaps 35% of the iron consumption of Great Germany will be supplied from domestic sources. Aluminum from bauxite imported from Hungary and the Balkans is supplementing heavier metals, such as copper and nickel. Artificial rubber sufficient for 25 to 30% of the peacetime rubber requirements is being...
...Flying Crimsonites will compete for the titles against M. I. T., Yale, Williams, Smith and other Eastern colleges under the auspices of the National Intercollegiate Flying Club and the rules of the National Aeronautic Association and the Civil Air Authority...
Connecting safely in seven out of eight innings, Floyd Stahl's Varsity batsmen regained Eastern Intercollegiate League supremacy Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field as they thoroughly outplayed the League leaders from Hanover in an 8 to 5 victory...