Word: bay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest dirigible hangars in the world but airplane hangars and other equipment constituting a large naval and air station, costing millions of dollars. For reasons unknown, this huge plant is not used, despite its strategic position, located on an excellent deep harbor and near the mouth of the Delaware Bay...
...speedboat, plunging forward on its cushion of spray, carried His Highness Prince Louis II of Monaco, last week, across shimmering Winyah Bay, South Carolina, to Georgetown. For several days the Sovereign of Monaco had dwelt in complete incognito and obscurity (TIME, Jan. 23) at Hobcan Barony, the luxurious Carolina coast hunting lodge of Manhattan economist Bernard Mannes Baruch. As the speedboat slithered up to a pier at Georgetown, last week, Mr. Baruch and Prince Louis hailed an ancient Negro hackman who drove them to the station. There His Highness entrained for Manhattan, after buying a newspaper...
...Across Akashi Bay...
...special train from Boston to New London will leave Back Bay at 1.50 o'clock, and the New York train is scheduled to pull out of the Grand Central at 2.10 o'clock...
...Houston,* who amounts to a second George Washington for Texans, they will find a city almost as big as Denver or Louisville, bigger than Omaha or Atlanta, twice the size of Albany, four times the size of Mobile, with ocean steamers coming right up to it from Galveston Bay, 50 miles away, and 17 railroads heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel, the Rice, will doubtless be headquarters. Smaller hotels such as the Lamar and Warwick, will take in overflow and there is an old custom in Texas, which Houstonians practice specially, of throwing open private homes...