Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved into the spotlight on the Spanish civil war stage last week, took personal command of the drive on Santander, last important Loyalist stronghold on the Biscay coast. Anxious to bolster his prestige, chubby Franco stood behind his lines, watching as his Rightists, Moors, Italian "volunteers" rolled down the sloping hills toward Santander...
...that Santander was "at his mercy," described Santander as a pushover because: 1) only about 25,000 half-hearted Basques, Santandrians and Asturians remain to defend the city against Franco's 60,000 Moors, Foreign Legionnaires, Italians; 2) successfully over the Cantabrian Mountains, the three Rightist columns can coast down the sloping hills into Santander; 3) no "iron ring" protects the city, only ill-concealed machine-gun nests on the hillsides, a few straggly strands of barbed wire...
...women of Hollywood have, by and large, never dressed for each other or for men, but for the camera, which makes more extravagant demands than either. Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan...
Every week since January 1936 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. has been advertising Palmolive shaving creams with a Wednesday night coast-to-coast radio melodrama called "Gang-busters." Produced by smart young Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which claims 20,000,000 listeners for the program, "Gangbusters" dramatizes actual criminal careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger...
...fishing tour of the West Coast, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Spokane, Wash. He sneered: "Why, you can get more fish within 75 miles of the Waldorf-Astoria* than you can out here...