Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were seven such zero cities. One of them, Yonkers. has had no deaths from typhoid during four separate years. Another, Tacoma, last year had no diphtheria death, a remarkable effect of good public health administration. And Tacoma in 1927 had been the worst typhoid city of its northwest district. Memphis and Nashville have their distinction in the typhoid record. They had the worst rates per 100,000 population in the U. S.-15 for Nashville. 11.6 for Memphis.† Nearly as bad were El Paso (10.2) and Oklahoma City...
There the matter had stood until Easter morning when a large breakfast was given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beale McLean at "Friendship," their handsome suburban home on the northwest fringe of Washington. To it went, with many another high U. S. official, Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann. Mr. Gann also went. He knew that Mr. McLean publishes the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer; that he was a bosom friend of President Harding; that he had "gone down the line" for Albert Bacon Fall, during the oil scandals; that his wife owns but rarely wears the Hope Diamond...
...social stage. That is why Washington is full of side shows. The form of the main performance is reproduced faithfully on a small, stuffy scale in the lobbies and "parlors" of the inexpensive hotels near Washington's Union Station. Seldom are these second-rate social troopers seen in Northwest Washington after 6 p. m. When a second-rate Congressman does scale the heights, he usually does something gauche-like the Senator who had himself flash-lighted as he entered Secretary Mellon's home to dine...
Some 30 miles northwest of Chicago is a model farm. It is operated wholly by electricity. Cows are curried with vacuum cleaners, milked with suction machinery. Automatic clocks flash strong lights on roosting hens in the evening and before dawn to arouse them to the possibility of laying extra eggs. Feed is ground and mixed by electrical machinery. Humming motors run corn-husking devices. Electric clocks dump pecks of oats into feed bins at 5 a. m. Electricity warms incubators where motors revolve the eggs periodically. Chicks are automatically herded under ultraviolet rays to ward off the pip. Electric heaters...
Courtly Prelude. With General Calles at Torreon in the north, rebel commanders made a flank attack around the western wing of the federals and struck at Mazatlan, the chief Pacific port of Mexico, northwest of the capital. The leaders of this thrust were General Ramon ("Sacristan"*) Iturbe and heavy-jowled Francisco Manzo. Advancing from the north and obscurity they took their place in the news. Halting the army of about 5,000 men, "Sacristan" Iturbe entered a telephone booth and called General Jaime Carillo, defender of the seaport...