Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be interesting to note that San Diego was the pioneer city of the west coast in inaugurating and carrying out an intensive community advertising campaign. San Diego, since her first campaign, has spent approximately $150,000.00 annually on community advertising, with the result that her population has increased over 100% with a corresponding increase in industrial development and realty values...
...build up the U. S. merchant marine. Last week the question remained as derelict as ever, but the U. S. Shipping Board took a definite step which apparently vexed no one very much. It sold the U. S. entirely out of the shipping business on the Pacific Coast...
...Protection for U. S. ports on the coast off which the operations take place-6 cruisers...
...annual cruise of the Naval Science Department will start from Boston, June 21 for a two week's sail along the Eastern coast, and will include visits to Halifax, N. S., and Portland, Maine, according to the itinerary as announced yesterday by Commander R. C. Grady, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science. Probably about 40 members of the University unit will be on board in addition to detachments from Yale, Northwestern, and Georgia Tech. The trip will be made on the battleship Wyoming, the flagship of the U. S. Scouting Force...
...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...