Word: boca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was in a holiday mood from the moment he stepped out of the presidential DC-6 Independence at Boca Chica airport near Key West. He paused on the loading ramp, grinned and held his broad-brimmed tan hat high for the photographers. Then, coming down, he shook hands with white-uniformed Captain Cecil C. Adell, commander of the naval base to which he was bound, and demanded...
...addition to the Ambassadorship, there is a multi-million-dollar project for Schine's swank Boca Raton Club near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Geddes, who regards the earth as well as buildings on it as fair game for rearranging, has started bulldozers reshaping the land around Boca Raton. Objective: a gently rolling, foursquare-mile plateau with just about the highest elevation (16 ft.) in the area. On it will be built a community of de luxe "cottages" that will sell at from, $20,000 to $50,000 apiece...
...Secretary, sweating in the Key West heat, alighted from a plane at Boca Chica airfield and went purposefully to lunch with the President. But lunch included an assortment of Florida politicos; obviously no state secrets were discussed...
...blunder. The season had only five weeks to go, and the 50,000 members of the league-leading "Racing" club were furious. So were backers of the second-place "River Plate" club (nicknamed Los Millonarios because of the club's free-handed spending for players). So were the "Boca Juniors" (No. 1 fan: President Juan Perón). So was nearly everybody else...
...Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop.: 23,000). (In his spare time, Schine also put together a chain of nine hotels, including Florida's swank Boca Raton Club and Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel...