Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized ; we must find our way back to the German soul...
...Turks, like the Bolsheviki in Leningrad, are allowing Constantinople to crumble. They do this without hesitation, asseverated Senator King, because, according to general opinion in the Near East, they have a secret agreement with Russia. This supposedly means that at some future date Russia may help Turkey to recapture her lost dominions in return for Constantinople, the age-old object of Russian foreign policy...
Maude. Explorer Roald Amundsen's schooner Maude, icebound all last winter in the region of the New Siberian Islands, southwest of Bering Strait, in a fruitless attempt to drift over the North Pole, was reported last week at East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight...
Five years ago Perry had taken his instrument East, dreaming of finding oil close on the edge of a vast industrial section. He had convinced two Rhode Island worsted merchants of the instrument's efficacy, had induced them to spend (up to last week) some $400,000, leasing 12,000 acres and sinking a test drill. All this in secret. Said one of the promoters: "This is just our little baby. We don't want people to laugh...
...high record for all time. In June, 1923, stocks fell 65,000,000 gallons, and in June, 1924, about 51,000,000 gallons. This year the California producers, heavily loaded still with stocks of crude oil, have been freely refining it and sending it East via the Panama Canal. Thus a price-cutting war has been precipitated all over the country. In such a contest, low cost marketers such as the long-established Standard Oil companies, enjoy a great advantage over high-cost marketers such as Sinclair, Pure Oil or Pan-American...