Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Eastern states, especially Massachusetts, with a block from the Midwest and a smattering from the rest of the Union and almost every part of the world. Academically, 1942 will be led by 34 National Scholars entering from 15 different states. In addition, 209 other scholarships have already been awarded to incoming Freshmen...
...busy Hamilton, island capital and chief tourist port, Competitor Furness and Canadian National Railways occupy all four berths, which meant that Eastern would have had to anchor in the harbor and ferry its passengers ashore. Best alternative was to use the harbor at sleepy St. George, where the piers are owned by the St. George Corporation. Hitch there was that there was only one hotel, the St. George, which is so regularly patronized that it never needs to advertise. Obvious solution lay in the ship-hotel idea, used successfully for years by cruise ships in Bermuda, but not by regularly...
Last March, to the alluring slogan "Your Ship Is Your Hotel," the Acadia began sailing into St. George, tying up, and keeping house for its passengers. For small-budget vacationists this was just the ticket, and Eastern's idea clicked profitably. Island innkeepers, as well as Furness Bermuda, which controls three hotels, were alarmed. They could easily imagine Bermuda harbors dotted with ship-hotels, the inns covered with cobwebs. Last June they had a bill introduced in Bermuda's Legislature barring ship-hotels from St. George and Hamilton harbors. But when the Governor-General, Lieut.-General Sir Reginald...
...town Brownsville is a U. S. terminus for Pan American Airways. Only other regular commercial airline out of Brownsville, connecting with such points as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Kansas City and Chicago, has been veteran Operator Tom Braniff's bustling Braniff Airways. Capt. Eddie Ricken-backer's Eastern Airlines, whose network of routes over the eastern side of the continent now reaches as far southwest as Houston, has coveted some of neighbor Braniff's exclusive shuttle trade...
When bids were asked, Tom Braniff and aides, "on the biggest comptometer we could find," ciphered out the infinitesimal figure of $.00001907378, per mile, put that in as their bid. Much to their disgust, Eastern, spurning machines and decimal fractions, offered the decisively low bid of $0.00. The Post Office department sniffed these bargain figures cautiously. Allowing that Eastern's zero bid might be quite legal, it hemmed and hawed, then announced that it would leave the decision up to incoming CAA. But last week, just before CAA came in, the Post Office decided that $.00001907378 saved...