Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philip Mohan of New York was the love-fighter. He is redhaired, freckled, and as Irish as boiled potatoes. Contrary to all romantic tradition Philip ("Red") Mohan comes not from the Lower East but the Upper West Side. Since "Red" Mohan flew a rattling "Jenny" plane from Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening...
...contract to build the first subway on the West coast of South America was secured, last week, by Don Luis Lagar-rigue, potent Chilean engineer. For the sum of $2,200,000 he will lay 30 blocks of subway under Santiago's famed avenue, the Alameda de las Delicias...
...project is under way for dams and spillways where Maine and New Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay. The sun pours billions of heat units upon the earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than the depths; hence the work of Georges Claude, member of the French Academy of Sciences at Havana, to utilize temperature to run turbines...
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Largest steel producer west of the Mississippi. Main works at Pueblo, Colo. Strike in company coal mines lowered 1928 earnings (first nine months, $1.54 per share). Steel rails are its chief product...
...sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family. The farm might be in California and it might be in Colorado but I'm going to look first in the Middle West. I am going to be just like all the other farmers...