Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Island, a baronial strip of land that was sacred to Republicans. ("In the Hoover campaign," Hall recalls, "the finance people set quotas for the 48 states and Nassau County.") But the Halls were no landed GOPatricians; Father Franklyn Hall was the coachman at Theodore Roosevelt's Oyster Bay estate, Sagamore Hill. Leonard, the youngest of eight Hall children, was born on Oct. 2, 1900. When Len was an infant, his father's employer was elected Vice President of the U.S., and a month after the election Teddy Roosevelt noted the new baby's arrival...
...year old, President McKinley was assassinated, and President Theodore Roosevelt brought his coachman to Washington to be chief messenger at the White House. Franklyn Hall kept his job until his death in 1915, but left his family behind in the roomy house he had built in Oyster Bay, returning home for vacations and occasional holidays. From childhood Len was immersed in politics, and Teddy Roosevelt became and remained his political ideal...
While Jamaica strove to cut its imports, a rich new export was discovered almost accidentally. In 1942 a Jamaican rancher wondered why he could not grow grass on his estate near Saint Ann's Bay and sent a soil sample to a U.S. laboratory for analysis. The test proved that the soil was rich in bauxite, the source mineral for aluminum. Two U.S. aluminum companies (Kaiser and Reynolds) and one Canadian (Aluminium Ltd., known locally as Aljam) rushed in, staked out one of the world's biggest bauxite reserves, and are now shipping more than...
...other industrial development is Jamaica's great tourist boom. Before World War II the island was little more than a cruise-ship stop. But postwar air travel has increased the traffic far beyond the island's capacity to handle it. A burst of hotel building at Montego Bay and Ocho Rios has raised Jamaica's hotel space to 3,000 first-class rooms priced up to $50 a day (double room, American plan) during the winter season. Even so, hotel owners turn down hundreds of applications every winter week (and are beginning to do a brisk summer...
...Jackson has been appointed a Visiting Lecturer on Government for the spring term. Formerly editor of the "Economist," she has written books and articles of political affairs that are internationally famous. In addition to numerous contributions to American periodicals, she has written "The West at Bay," "Policy for the West," and "Faith and Freedom...