Word: southeasterners
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...years ago, its forefathers appeared on the American continent, probably arriving in a shipment of broomcorn from southeastern Europe to a Canadian broom factory. After a few years of glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state...
...surprising." Railway shopmen, maintenance of way employes, clerks and telegraphers, have in recent months asked for pay increases which in a few cases were granted by employers. Other cases are to appear before the Mediation Board. There remain the engineers and firemen. Eastern firemen want $1 a day more; Southeastern engineers a general 15% boost. They have made claims on individual employers, but have not yet come to discussion. Canadian railroaders threatened a strike last week. But the smoothness of the U. S. arbitration made them pause for further arguments...
...sharp November night thinned out into a grey November dawn over rocky Utah. The broad reaches of Great Salt Lake caught up pale sunrise colors. On desolate Antelope Island in the Southeastern corner of the lake the buffalo* herd slowly bestirred itself to test the morning air. Like shaggy brown mounds they looked in the dim light, lurching up lazily from sleep: here three cows and their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended...
Among the buildings that will be used for the first time this year is the new Fogg Art Museum, now standing practically completed at the corner of Quincy Street and Broadway, directly opposite the southeastern corner of the Yard, and forming, though Quincy Street intervents, a quadrangle with Emerson, Sever and Robinson...
...stirred up by the St. Paul's creditors,* seeks to learn why, how and with what benefits the road three and a half years ago leased the 96-mile Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary belt line and the Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern...