Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year these were only minor effects. Summer, 1946 would be super-colossal. There would be more trips, more sunburn, more automobile wrecks, more beach bonfires, picnics, fancy diving and moonlit romances than ever before. The kissing in canoes, front-porch swings, automobiles, motorboats and tree-shaded lanes had already used up lipstick by the bucket. Baseball was wonderful again and dance bands were improving-grandstands and pavilions were crowded. Summer stock and borsch circuit vaudeville were splashed with big names. If the fishing was not the best in history, a million mosquito-bitten men would never admit...
...didn't seem to care much, one way or another, about all these manifestations, just so he went somewhere. By last week-after months of frantic scheming-millions were vacationing. Long-shuttered estates of the rich were being reopened at Southampton, Easthampton and Newport. New England resorts and beach hotels from Bar Harbor to Sea Island were awash with guests. Most desk clerks were not discussing reservations-except for the summer...
Wartime bonuses had been taken off. Seamen got no unemployment insurance or protection under the Wage & Hour law. Deckhands worked 56 hours a week at sea, stewards 63. Because there was not enough work to go around, three months of every year they were "on the beach"-vacations for which they...
Going to Summer School seemed ridiculous to Vag, something strictly for pudgy, bespectacled graduate students and spinsterish schoolteachers. He though of the season at the beach, lying in the sun all day, long drives on cool summer evenings. And here he was, going back to school. Back to stifling college rooms and trying to listen to long lectures, while outside, green leaves would sway beckoningly. And here was Vag, carrying his bulging bag down Dunster Street, a cigarette danging from his lips, and beginning to perspire...
With the burgeoning Government revenue, Grau had great plans for Cuba: 500 rural schools, a trade and agricultural institute, a badly needed public beach for Habaneros, a $100,000-a-month workers' housing program. Grau also planned an agrarian bank to encourage long-term development of truck farming and cattle raising, and new roads to bring farm products to town. His reiterated basic aim: a Cuba half industrial, half agricultural...