Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey, sailed on the Aquitania for his usual summer trip. His chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...
Headquarters for (a) were to be in Chicago. Headquarters for (b) were Mr. Nutt himself, at the Union Trust Co., Cleveland. To assist him in the East, Mr. Nutt picked out a Manhattanite, Jeremiah Milbank, mild-mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
Madame Rubinstein is among the most important, most fashionable of U. S. beauty specialists. In her bizarre, red and yellow shop in East 57th Street, Manhatten, she displays many a cosmetic product made of water lilies. To the skeptical she offers a tour of inspection at the Long Island factory. Here she would exhibit row on row of half-opened water lilies, kept fresh until the exact moment when their essence may be impounded into creams, powders, lipsticks. Less aesthetic visitors could feast their eyes on tubs of cucumbers, great bunches of parsley leaves. Madame Rubinstein is justly proud...
...these documents is incalculable. The first would seem to set at rest the many alarms of those who have thought that Italy had colonial designs on Turkey. The pacts with Persia and Afghanistan are fresh documentary evidence of the fact that there is now in formation a Middle East Entente...
July 11: Soviet Pilot Chukhnovsky with crew of four, takes off from Krassin, sights Capts. Mariano & Zappi and the body of Malmgren. He is forced down on North East Land. Marooned, Pilot Chukhnovsky directs rescue of Malmgren party by radio...