Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategic Errors. That was John Lewis' way of repairing some grave errors in his own strategy. When the miners' contract ran out nearly three months ago he had modified the traditional "no contract, no work" policy by ordering all his soft-coal miners east of the Mississippi on a three-day week. But that strategem had fizzled...
Sure Ground. It was a lull in the political East-West conflict which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...michi Tanaka, a bristling, bossy little ex-lieutenant general of the Japanese army air force, "I find that Americans and Europeans like to ride up front. This is a sign of higher culture. They don't like to see the rear view of the sweating driver. In the East, due to low culture, passengers ride in back. In Siam, for example, so low is the culture that the law forbids push-type cabs for fear the passengers will be assaulted by the drivers...
...Straus, Miami's Richard Store, Philadelphia's Lit Bros., Trenton's Swern's Store, Hartford's Wise, Smith's, Boston's R. H. White, and the Oppenheim, Collins & Co. chain with branches in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Buffalo, White Plains and Garden City, N.Y., East Orange and Morristown, N.J., and Philadelphia...
...looks as if matters may well get worse as Author Feikema is more thoroughly cribbed and confined. At the end of The Primitive, Thurs headed East. Part Two will find him and Author Feikema in the toils of the city slickers, 700 miles farther from home...