Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastward Ho. San Francisco's 49-year-old American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. will move its headquarters to New York, leave its West Coast business in the hands of Williams, Dimond & Co., a wholly owned subsidiary. The reason, said President Lewis A. Lapham, who had moved to Manhattan six months ago, was that high operating costs had forced the line to consolidate its offices and concentrate on its intercoastal trade, which could be directed as easily from New York...
...order from the general, an orderly brought yellow pears, as large as grapefruit. As we ate, the general traced the Central China battle on the palm of his hand. Twelve miles eastward his old comrade, Lieut. General Huang Po-tao, was encircled in an area 3½ miles in diameter around the rail town of Nienchuang. In eleven days of fighting Huang had lost 40,000 troops. From his position north of the Lunghai railway, General Li was punching east to relieve Huang. In a parallel position south of the railway, Lieut. General Chiu Ching-chuan's Second Army...
Johnny Belinda (Warner) is an odd, rather likable blend of believable back-country dramatics and old-fashioned melodramatics. It is set on Cape Breton Island, at the eastward tip of Nova Scotia. Its chief characters are a deaf-mute slavey named Belinda (Jane Wyman) and a kind-hearted young doctor (Lew Ayres...
...Ingen & Co. Inc., Blyth & Co.; Inc. and the First Boston Corp., a syndicate of 217 dealers began marketing a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issue totaling $134 million. A third of the amount will refund the commission's present bonds. The rest will pay for extending the turnpike 100 miles eastward to King of Prussia, just outside Philadelphia...
...small oceanic islands like radio-guided airplanes. But some of them seem to cross unnecessary oceans. The Arctic tern, for instance, nests in summer in North America; when winter approaches, it heads for Antarctic regions near South America. But instead of flying south, the most direct route, it heads eastward across the North Atlantic to Europe, then down the African coast and across the South Atlantic. Other birds that migrate long distances take similar detours. All this tends to vex and confuse the ornithologists, who want to know why birds behave that...