Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors: "Today the magic possibilities of industrial regimentation and the so-called planned economy no longer cast the spell of yesterday-that spell is broken. That...
...broadcast also included greetings to King George from a dairy farmer in New Zealand, a lumberjack in the Canadian woods, an Army pensioner in London, a tea merchant on his Indian plantation, et al. Sandwiched in were what the announcer called "an eyewitness description of surf bathing at Bondi Beach" in Australia and "the voices of children romping in the botanical gardens at Melbourne...
...negotiations. The inexplicable "Jafsie" was able only "partially" to identify Hauptmann when first confronted with him. There is literally no telling what the 74-year-old retired Bronx school-teacher will do when he gets on the stand. Last fortnight he made a mysterious motor trip to West Palm Beach on business "connected with the case." He did the case no good when he told reporters there: "No one saw Hauptmann kill the baby. I don't think they can convict him." The doctor thought, however, that Hauptmann might be proven guilty of extortion...
...Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones dug up on the beach...
...expert on ambergris, explained: "I mean that is bad news for me. It means another barrage of letters from every Tom, Dick & Harry who finds a hunk of rotten fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base...