Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover hugged Washington to hear about the East and issue orders. National G. O. P. Chairman Work and a squad of speakers traveled to Maine, by tradition a political barometer though its Presidential readings have been only one way (Republican) for 52 years.* Nominee Smith spent the week concentrating on the first premise of a Democratic victory, New York State. Busiest of all, National Democratic Chairman Raskob, fourth of the Big Four, traveled from Manhattan to the Midwest, to attend Nominee Robinson's notification, to see the farmers for himself, to lubricate local machinery, to arrange Nominee Smith...
...Havre. He stood on the deck, last week, as the ship slipped into the narrow harbor. From where he stood, he could see, at the right, the houses of Havre which seem flat like the backdrop of a theatre. He could also see, to the East, the sun. He could not see an object upon which the sun's rays were playing...
Brooklyn, N. Y., makes attar of roses; Bulgaria suffers. Flushing, N.Y., makes citronella; to Java's detriment. Newark, N. J., makes vanillin against vanilla from Seychelle, Mexico and Reunion.† New Jersey ivroid harms African ivory, its bakelite, Central American mahogany. Delaware makes amber (East Prussian commodity) substitute...
Copper Camp. California roared in the '40s, but Montana did its roaring while the East was enjoying the elegant '80s. In 1870, only 241 men and women were staking their fortunes on the 6-foot pit in the earth which two prospectors had discovered six years earlier. They were tapping surface veins of gold and silver. They did not suspect that the real wealth of Montana's barren hills lay deeper in the earth...
Seven U. S. radio stations last week were broadcasting pictures. Two were operating regularly, four irregularly. The last were testing out their frequencies. The stations: WGY, Schenectady, N. Y. (General Electric); KDKA, East Pittsburgh, Pa. (Westinghouse); WRNY, New York (Experimenter Publishing Co.); 3XK, Washington (Jenkins Laboratories); 2XAL, New York (Experimenter Publishing Co.) ; 1XAY, Lexington, Mass. (Donald R. Lafflin); 4XA, Memphis, Tenn. (Wrec., Inc.); 9XAA, Chicago (Chicago Federation of Labor...