Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles has finally forced the East to go West and do business. Many firms have surrendered to it completely, have moved their headquarters to Los Angeles. Among them: Rexall Drug, Inc., Carnation Co., American Potash & Chemical Corp. With all this, Los Angeles is the richest agricultural county and the most productive dairying county in the nation. As an afterthought it raises 3,000,000 rabbits, 10,000 chinchillas and most of the country's cymbidium orchids...
...Mexico complained that the U.S. already owned 54,000 square miles-about 44% of the state's total area*-counting seven national forests, a national park, the vast Los Alamos atomic energy layout and the Armed Forces Special Weapons installation east of Albuquerque...
Toward the Welfare State. On the pediment of the east face of the Supreme Court Building are some marble figures illustrating the fable of the hare and the tortoise, the moral of which was "Slow & steady wins the race." The inference is that the court's function is to plod along at a slow, safe pace, with proper judicial warnings to a sometimes harebrained, galloping Senate & House. At this moment in history, however, it was the conservative Senate & House who were plodding along, passing no broad social legislation...
...Louis last week, the Post-Dispatch (circ.: 271,047) hired the first Negro reporter in its 71-year history. The P-D's new man: John Henry Hicks, 21, of East St. Louis, Ill., a University of Illinois journalism graduate...
...takes so little to set Sprinter Mel Patton's delicate nerves to jangling that he never reads the sport pages before a race. But he could not help knowing that the East had a challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before...