Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southeast's idea of itself is increasingly industrial and commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
After five well received concerts in the East and Middle West, both musically and financially successful, accompanied by as many luncheons, tea dances, dinners, debutante balls, sightseeing tours, and special entertainments, the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs disbanded in Chicago after the Sunday afternoon concert of December 30. Some departed homeward; about 20 members left that night at 9 o' clock for Boston in one of the special cars while the Glen Douglas special left the following morning with those men who had remained for a dinner dance...
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, big-mystery-man of Shanghai, Honolulu, South Sea Islands, South Pole, Manila, Rapallo, Manhattan, Cape Cod and points north, east, south & west, has confessed and proven that he is none other than himself. It all happened this way. Playwright O'Neill has visited, been rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien...
...past weeks nationwide sniffling, coughing and dull fevers have heralded the spread of influenza. Unlike the famed epidemic of 1918, the disease spread from west to east.* Last week the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington estimated that 700,000 persons had the disease, with a possible peak of 3,000,000 cases. Kansas was dangerously affected. The northeastern states seemed exempt...
When U.S. telephone subscribers ask for West 4251 and get East 4391, they slam down indignant receivers and call the New York (Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Savannah) telephone system the worst in the world. Of course they really know that the U.S. telephone system is the best in the world. And if they have tried to use South American telephones, they realize the shocking extent of their exaggeration...