Word: beach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 4, Alfred Emanuel Smith stayed in bed till 10 a.m. at West Palm Beach, Fla. Cornered by newsgatherers he said, "Well, I'd forgotten the date. It is really March 4 now, isn't it? No, I don't think I shall tune in. What I want to do is shoot some golf." Asked if he had sent a message to Mr. Hoover, he answered, "Why should I bother him to read a telegram from me? I called on him a while ago personally and gave him my good wishes." Out on the golf course while...
...rowing is concerned, the filling in of the shores will not seriously shorten the courses in the lower Basin, and the substitution of a sloping beach for the present granite wall will reduce the rough water which reflects back from this wall on account of the prevailing westerly winds...
...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...
Look where you might, you saw people whom lots of people say they know-Rex Ellingwood Beach, who writes; Ray Long, who edits; John Golden, who produces; Charles Edwin Mitchell, who banks...
...line of jetsam along a beach shows how high the tide has been, so earnings of representative U. S. corporations measure the tide of U. S. prosperity. Last week many a corporation report showed 1928 figures well eclipsing statistics for 1927, testified eloquently to the soundness and growth of U. S. business...