Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wabash-Lehigh Valley, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Western Maryland. Ann Arbor, Norfolk & Western. Seaboard Air Line, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton...
From the ferryboat West Point, rammed in the Hudson River by a car barge, 700 passengers were taken safely...
...Bristled to attention as the shooting of 18 women by British police and troops in Nigeria, West Africa, was announced by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Dr. T. Drummond Shiels. The women, said Dr. Shiels, were Negresses. They had attacked some British officers. Troops rushing to the rescue of their superiors received the order "Hold your fire, men!" and did so until the Negresses approached, slapped their faces, laid hands upon their rifles with intent to snatch them, whereupon British chivalry cracked and the shooting down of women began...
...played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...
From California's sunny foggy strand to Manhattan's rocky banks went news last week of great import for future air lanes. In California, the West Coast Airship Board, headed by Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chose a 1700-acre tract at Sunnyvale, 50 air miles from Mare Island Navy Yard (at San Francisco). This tract was the Board's first choice of an anchorage. Second was some 2,000 acres, near San Diego, a; Camp Kearney recommended for a mooring mast...