Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny day last September, in the two cars, one painted light blue for Cambridge, one dark blue for Oxford, the adventurers took off. Eastward they drove to Paris, Vienna, Belgrade and on to Beirut, Lebanon, where they camped for a week in a girls' school, temporarily vacant. "By this time," said Cowell, "we were becoming expert in the roving life. We achieved fabulous success at wheedling sleeping places." Often, on country roads they had simply set up their cots under the stars and slept where they were. In cities they had made motels of many an empty shelter, such...
...test this theory, Dr. Miyake and his colleagues studied the world's weather maps. The wind pattern looked encouraging for the theory. On the day the radioactive material rose above the Nevada desert, there was a powerful wind waiting aloft to carry it eastward. The most probable route would take the atmospheric tracer across the U.S., the Atlantic, Europe, Central Asia and China. It should travel about 1,000 miles a day and should reach Japan in about the right time: two weeks...
Within a week, the Informer's circulation has risen from 500 to several million, and sweating mailmen are dragging love letters by sackfuls into the office. Apart from the great Figg feature, the Informer also gives some coverage to a British scientist who is suspected of having decamped Eastward with his nation's newest secret war weapon-electric eels. Another informative Informer expose concerns a movement called Ethical Recreation (which may remind some readers of Moral Re-Armament); its leader, Dr. Sloper, ministers chiefly to the rich, since "the poor are always Christian, they can't afford...
Stretching eastward from Cleveland, the plants and rail yards reached 50 miles to Ashtabula, Ohio, spread south so fast that the road to Akron, 30 miles away, will be a solid line of industry within ten years...
...rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third during the year, and great new developments for Canada's petroleum industry lay right ahead: a $350 million pipeline eastward and a $120 million line southward to carry natural gas to Eastern Canada and the Pacific Northwest. In British Columbia, the Aluminum Co. of Canada decided that the new $300 million Kitimat plant was already outgrown and launched a $200 million expansion...