Word: northeasterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Convention in Philadelphia. By July 4 the tour had covered the southern "low country" counties along the coast, then skipped to the Piedmont. In mid-July the stumpsters knocked off for another week to allow voters time to harvest their tobacco crop, resumed their speech-making in the northeastern tier of counties...
...Maine's northeastern tip late next afternoon Yachtsman Roosevelt suddenly changed his northerly course, struck eastward across the choppy waters of the Bay of Fundy on the longest open-water sail he had taken since boyhood. Thirty hours later he had covered 125 miles, dropped anchor off Cape Sable on Nova Scotia's southern tip. As the flotilla headed north next day the President's prayer for fog was answered (TIME, July 20), but it was not heavy enough to let him escape the stream of dispatches convoyed from the Hopkins at every stop. Off the tiny...
Well above the Arctic Circle, Wrangel Island lies north of the northeastern tip of Siberia. In 1924 the Soviet Government clinched its title to the land by establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
Freshman baseball team beat the Northeastern '39 nine 13-4 on Soldiers Field yesterday...
About to change hands last week was the famed Barco oil concession, an inaccessible 500,000-acre tract of jungle in northeastern Colombia. Originally granted to Colombia's late General Don Virgilio Barco in 1905, it is one of the world's great concessions, though hardly a barrel of oil has yet been taken out of it. Wells have been drilled, but the necessary pipe-line to the coast is yet to be laid. For the past decade the Barco concession has been controlled by Gulf Oil Corp...