Word: beach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the production the club has signed up John C. Haggott '35, 1935 president. Last summer he was an assistant to Richard Whorf at the Beach Theatre on Cape...
...flickering in the dark. But as the days passed it became more & more likely that Sir Charles, who had safely pioneered almost every dangerous airway in the world, had finally tempted fate too far. Hope persisted that he might have landed on some tiny, uninhabited island, some lonely Burma beach. In California, Brother Richard Harold Kingsford Smith recalled that in 1929 Sir Charles was given up for dead when lost for twelve days in the Australian bush. Said he: "I'm not worried. He'll show...
Died. John ("Old Itchfoot") Swanson, 65, onetime rich, notorious gold prospector; in Los Angeles. He went to Nome in the 1890's, staked out the "Little Minook" mine, gathered in $15,000 a day for a great many days, was a crony of Tex Rickard, Rex Beach, Jack London and "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, poured his money in a yellow river across the gambling tables. Broke, hoping for another big strike, he succumbed in a dismal flophouse last week to acute indigestion...
...Chief." Robert Earl Clements was born 40 years ago in Amarillo Tex., son of a rich cattleman. After high school in Fort Worth, he migrated to Long Beach Calif, set up in the real estate business, prospered. His fortune reached a peak of $750,000 in 1929, slumped with Depression. Realtor Clements was not much impressed when one of his salesmen, an ineffectual old man who had been a Long Beach health officer, began talking to him about a plan to banish depressions for good. But after a while he took interest spent a few weeks brushing up on economics...
...cases, of which Mr. Dole put up 4,500,000 cases. First Hawaiian sight glimpsed by travelers arriving from the "mainland" is an enormous pineapple (really a 400-ton water tank in disguise) on the roof of the Dole cannery. And along with Diamond Head. Pearl Harbor, Waikiki Beach and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Dole cannery, where drinking fountains spurt pineapple juice instead of water, is a famed Hawaiian spot that no visitor is allowed to miss. Hawaiians like Mr. Dole, father of their pineapple industry, because although the sugar industry grosses more dollars, sugar eaters do not care...