Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic cop on his boat in Harlem are excellent sources for news stories...
...Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano...
...sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked President Hoover's Rapidan camp (choicest varieties were kept in the White House), the Woolaroc ranch of Oilman Frank Phillips, the Bureau of Fisheries' aquarium exhibition. Fish Master Nakashima does not raise his goldfish for scientific experiments, but some of them may find their way into laboratories...
...Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better building material than brick. He first took his idea of a General Motors in the housing field to steel-conscious Charles Allen Liddle, president of Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp...
...Aquarium-the place where a sucker takes his date to dance. (Syracuse...