Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Pan American Airways began practical preparations for its line between San Francisco and Canton, William T. Miller of the Department of Commerce's Air Commerce Bureau quietly sailed out to Hawaii to survey the possibility of establishing depots for U. S. airlines to the Antipodes. With similar lack of fanfare, twelve youngsters from Honolulu's Kamehameha School were thereafter packed aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, taken out to Jarvis, Howland and Baker Islands, established in crews of four as weather observers. Along with their instruments for noting wind velocity, rainfall and cloud formations, the boys...
Every Woman St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.), Alma Mater of Owen D. Young, last week promised each of its female students Sunday breakfast in bed. "It is," said Dean Louise Jones, "a little luxury that I think every woman is entitled...
...oven, banged the door and roared, "Ready, Sir." Though the United Kingdom never heard last week that whimsical Admiral Backhouse & Home Fleet had sailed for Gibraltar, the fact of their arrival finally appeared tucked quietly away in London papers, while world headlines were screaming "WAR!" from Chicago to Canton...
...they hopped on. It was Wake Island, an insignificant pinprick on the map since 1796 and an uninhabited U. S. possession since 1899. Now Wake Island had become vastly important as the third stepping-stone in Pan American Airways' long strides across the Pacific from San Francisco to Canton. Some 5,000 miles west of San Francisco, Wake consists of three low coral atolls, the largest but four miles long, surrounded by a dangerous reef. There is no drinking water, but, unlike barren Midway Island, the verdure of umbrella and hardwood trees is jungle-thick. Everywhere are coral boulders...
Septuagenarian Henry Holiday Timken, Canton's No. 1 citizen, lives in baronial splendor in his Canton home, is sometimes called "The Millionaire Nobody Knows." Around his estate is a high iron fence guarded by watchmen who question all who attempt to enter. Deaf, Mr. Timken expresses himself in curious ways. On his office floor is a fine thick carpet. It is said that when something displeases him, he stalks the floor scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence...