Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Westward of Philadelphia the distances were too long for peddlers, so freight creaked through the mountains to Pittsburgh at $3 per ton, on blue and red Conestoga wagons, the drivers rolling "stogies" between mudholes...
...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 but not until last week did they officially cross the border into Illinois. They...
There was little snow to be seen, because of the small precipitation in recent winters, but the extinct glciation more than compensated. On both sides of the Whitney group, glaciers formed in the cirques under the peaks and flowed down east and west, but in greater volume westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate...
...Conestoga" wagon. It took its name from the vehicle-the predecessor of the modern freight car-which carried freight in the 1790's from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...
...across the plains of North Dakota. At Mandan she talked about babies jam-making with farmers' wives. At Medora Chief Red Tomahawk, he who had killed Sitting Bull, crowned Her Majesty Winyan Kipanki Win ("The Woman Who Was Waited For"). Said she as her train again snorted westward: "I have lived a whole lifetime of love today...