Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...axles, it had no mudguards, and it looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled huge Gatun Lake on a trestle, planes soared from side to side, but the motor road existed only in blueprints. We turned out for the two boys and their rut-jumping car-we hoisted them on to the railroad trestle with one wheel just outside...
Bread and feedstuffs were not the only commodities to enjoy the boom. Though little affected by drought except in the Southeast, cotton soared above 13½? per lb. The year's low was about 10?, and in cotton a 1? change means at least $50,000,000 to the South. What gave cotton its big push last week was a government report estimating the total planting on July 1 at 30,600,000 acres. Though that was a gain over last year's unusually small acreage, it was still 26% below the old-time average. Meantime world cotton...
Forty-three sturdy little sailboats stood out of Newport, R. I. last week, headed southeast across 635 miles of open sea for Bermuda. The biggest fleet ever entering an ocean race, the 43 sloops, schooners, yawls, ketches included many a new craft, many a famed oldtimer. Newest was Robert P. Baruch's 53-ft. sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because...
British authorities at Nassau last week heard that a wrecked trawler had just been found on lonely Samana Cay, 300 miles southeast. At once they leaped to the conclusion that the wreck was the mysterious Girl Pat, brand new trawler which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day and, after lurid adventures, was last reported fortnight ago off Guiana (TIME, June 8 & 22). Before they could investigate, the Girl Pat turned up safely at Georgetown, British Guiana...
...Deal but economics and weather saved the potato farmers' shirts. Having taken it on the chin so badly in 1935, growers naturally planted fewer potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...