Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer on a vast but local scale. He is the father of the National Cotton Council, a federation of growers, brokers, ginners, warehousemen and crushers which is trying to increase cotton's home market. Last week his Council held its third annual convention at Augusta's stuccoed Bon Air Hotel...
...Muni are inspired Frenchmen who finally overcome all difficulties (except the script) in their effort to barter furs. Typical Muni walk: "through dense woods, along fast-flowing streams, across the myriad lakes of Canada, pushing farther north than any white man had ever gone before." Typical Muni talk: "Le bon Dieu. . . . This place for look-not talk...
Sister of the Yorktown and Enterprise, smaller than the 33,000-ton Saratoga and Lexington, bigger than the Ranger and Wasp, Hornet is one of five carriers ordered before the U. S. decided on a two-ocean Navy. The other four (Kearsarge, Essex, Bon Homme Richard and Intrepid) are on the way. After them will come seven more, all ordered (and all under construction). Barring a war, in 1945-46 the U. S. will have 18 carriers. If Britain should fall this spring and surrender its fleet intact to Germany, the U. S. Navy's carrier equipment would...
...blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain's Serapis off Scotland's coast in 1779. Today the Marine Corps is the keenest rifle-shooting outfit in the world. On the walls of Tommy Holcomb's office in the sprawling Navy Building on Washington...
...Cornwall began to run out. By 1910 he was selling to Europe on a big scale. By 1912 he had $2,000,000 to buy more mines. By 1924 he owned much more than half the swollen Bolivian output, was known in half a dozen capitals as a bon viveur, was called the "richest man in the world...