Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East Boston Airport is to be completely done over according to plans adopted to make it one of the leading airports in the United States. The field, upon which work has already been started, is to be trebled in size, and all the hangars are to be torn down and new, ultra-modern ones built. The Flying Club hangar will be constructed in accordance with the plans for the new airport...
...Frederick Moersch, carpenter, who had been helping his widowed daughter run a Village ice cream parlor. He is a typhoid carrier, immune to the disease himself, infectious to others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might eat. A woman, "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, is also there for life, for like cause...
...there were milder settlers in California who dreamed of golden grain and ripe fruits. When a small group of these beheld. 30 miles east of busy, sprawling Los Angeles, a hill profuse with oranges, lemons, apricots, peaches, it was also quite natural that they should invoke an Italian legend and call the spot Pomona.* Pomona it became when it was settled...
While the city sleeps, the cops play pinochle in the assembly room and gangsters croak a jeweler on East 37th Street, Manhattan. On the trail of "Mile-Away" Healey, undertaker, suspected murderer, gang-leader, move the swollen feet of Detective Chancy. His face, which successfully suggests the face of an experienced bloodhound, looks through the window of a lunchroom wherein Mile-Away is quarreling with a recent mistress; the same face pushes out of a coffin in Mile-Away's funeral parlors and later appears suddenly in a dark corner of a fur store which Mile-Away...
...Henri Wilhelm August Deterding is famed in Holland. The son of a Dutch sea captain, he left Holland in 1884, went to the Dutch East Indies to sell kerosene lamps and allied merchandise. In 1892 he was called to Batavia by the Royal Dutch oil interests. He is now Director-General of that gigantic enterprise. Robust, brown-eyed, white-haired, he spends most of his time in St. Helen's Court, London, centre of the financial district. The English have made him a baronet. His millions rank him with Rockefeller, Ford, the world's Croesi. He is superficially...