Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north from the Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah, new German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad...
Trinidad, British island off the northeast coast of South America, is a hot mixture of bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes crazy with a carnival of rum-drinking, parades, musicmaking, mummery-blacks painted or masked as whites, whites as blacks. During carnival, Trinidad characters bearing such names as The Lion, Atilla the Hun, The Caresser, The Growler live high and merrily. They are the Calypsonians of the island, who compose, play and sing the Trinidad music known as Calypso.* Their songs, whose jerky rhythms and insinuating tunes suggest...
...northeast corner of Utah, on a bare ridge of the desolate Uinta Mountains, diggers discovered the fossil remains of several dinosaurs ("terrible lizards"). The U. S. Government set apart 80 acres at the site, named it Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens...
...disclosure followed a week after an announcement in the British House of Commons that France and Britain had sent a joint warning to Tokyo to keep hands off the big Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles northeast of the Paracels and hard off the coast of China. Japanese occupation of either Hainan or the Paracels would place Japan within easy attacking distance of Indo-China, more important, would place her astride Britain's vital sea route between her strongly fortified colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore...
...have been sent to French Guiana since the penal colony was established in 1852. Some commentators have pictured the colony as a happy, carefree settlement. The French Guiana climate is always humid, with the temperature ranging from 68 to 90 degrees, with frequent trade winds from both southeast and northeast. Undeniable fact, however, is the large number of deaths, which each year has generally equaled the number of importations, as well as the large number of men of broken health and spirits who escape...