Word: corals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the coral-pink prettiness of the Bermuda Islands attracted 79,856 visitors. Of these, well over 90% were Americans, but only 1,088 tourists sailed there on U. S. ships. Early this year, in an attempt to divert U. S. tourist dollars into U. S. pockets, Eastern Steamship Lines decided to run the steamer Acadia (cruise capacity 400) on a weekly schedule to Bermuda, competing chiefly with the British-owned Furness Bermuda Line...
...small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month. But not all the gadgets in the world could save her if she smacked the water hard enough to crack her seagoing hull-or if she caught fire while dumping gasoline, as the Samoan Clipper, with Captain Musick and a crew...
...radio importance. In 1922 he founded 50-watt KFI, built it to 50,000 watts. He brought fame to his newer station, KECA, bought in 1929, with his program of symphonic recordings. A spare-time musician himself, he collaborated with Hula-Expert Johnny Noble on a popular tune, Coral Isle...
...generations hardy Chinese fishermen have nosed their little junks into the treacherous South China Sea, headed for the small group of uninhabited coral atolls known as the Paracel Islands. On these reefs, located 300 miles south of the China coast and 250 miles east of French Indo-China (see map, p. 15), they flip over big. basking turtles, collect birds' nests to be shipped to the mainland where they are made into China's famed soups...
Inside are coral gardens, reefs and jutting shelves to protect smaller fish from their predatory neighbors. Already Marine Studios boasts the only porpoises and manta rays in captivity, sawfish, penguins, barracuda, devil fish, turtles, etc. Eventually it hopes to have virtually everything from jellyfish to man-eating sharks...