Word: beach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi and ex-Congressman-Lobbyist Loring Black of New York, both respected by their ex-colleagues, shouldered the contact work. A dozen lawyer-lobbyists and refiner-lobbyists, headed by General Counsel H. Beach Carpenter, stood ready at all times to see that the Congress did not lack for convincing information. Why, demanded the lobbyists, enlarge an industry off-shore when the same industry was at 62% capacity on the continent...
...Daytona Beach...
...shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion. Rebel Schiaparelli, outdoing even this, has flung a plaster female stark naked.* bottom down on a beach rug of artificial flowers, tossed the costume on a beach chair. Since such capers by the aristocrats of haute couture are not intended to please everyone, Paris' great department store Le Louvre is handy at the Exposition, selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear quality and style...
...Brussels, a big Douglas transport of the Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) took off on a morning run from Amsterdam to Paris. Some witnesses thought the motors sounded queer. On board were a crew of three and twelve passengers, including Benjamin F. Mun of Long Beach, Calif., president of Humber Oil Co. Near the village of Lembecq-lez-Hal the airliner bored into a mass of dark cloud, was seen few minutes later pitching steeply to earth with flame enveloping the left wing. The plane struck so hard that the motors and half the fuselage disappeared into the ground...
...where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice is charming, but she knows all the words in any man's vocabulary. Once she got an interview with Al Capone by walking unannounced into his Miami Beach residence...