Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gambia. On Apr. 4, the Prince will pay a short visit to this small enclave British possession on the west coast of Africa, landing at Bathurst in the bright-blue steam pinnace...
Still he worked on. Bubonic plague turned up in the West Indies and he headed the McGurk Commission. He would try out his Phage, but insisted that test patients be observed first. More hostility from McGurk, from the colonial government. When he finally had his way, Death, ironic in ghastly buboes, crept in arid throttled Leora. So that stroke for Science flew wide. Her death unmanned him, his figures went to pot, and the results McGurk published were flagrantly padded...
...erosion of the houses has been considerable and this, in a very dry region, points to great age. The village is farther to the north and west than other pueblos, and its age has been tentatively set at from 5,000 to 10,000 years - which makes it as old or older than the most ancient Egyptian tombs. Governor Scrugham has accepted the title of "Pueblo Grande de Nevada" for the buried city, and plans to convert it into a state park. Needless to say, the work of excavation has only begun...
...remaining 32 years of his life he amassed a fortune of some 72,000,000. Two-fisted and far from scrupulous, he turned to speculation in railroad stocks, buying and selling roads on a great scale. At one time, he was credited with controlling every important through railway route west and southwest of St. Louis except the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Atlantic & Pacific. He was credited with control, at one time or another, of the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the International & Great Northern, the St. Louis Southwestern...
...state that Nome is on the west coast of the Alaskan peninsula"; and that Anchorage is on the "south shore of the peninsula, meaning, presumably, the "Alaskan" peninsula also...