Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spaniards Rescued. A lingering hope drove the British airplane carrier Eagle to search last week for the Spanish trans-Atlantic aspirants, Commander Ramon Franco and his companions, missing a week (TIME, July 1). The Eagle found them 100 miles southeast of the Azores, where they had planned to land. In a fog they had overshot the islands. Spanish Premier Primo de Rivera cried with relief at the news...
...Abraham Lincoln, President Hoover has special reverence. Lincoln's oldtime cabinet room in the southeast corner of the second floor of the White House, he has changed from a guest chamber to a study. From the attic has been brought a dusty old chair which the President believes originally stood there...
Dislikers of the Power Trust remarked that although International Paper & Power Co. does not sell power in the Carolinas and Georgia, the papers purchased by LaVarre and Hall are all in or near the Piedmont waterpower section of the southeast...
Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...
...southeast's idea of itself is increasingly industrial and commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...