Word: eucalyptus
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...awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...
...western edge of San Bernardino, Calif., just past the tight ranks of eucalyptus trees which shelter the city from desert-bound winds, Mayor James E. Cunningham this week helped unload the first lumber for a new housing project. It was one of this year's few U.S. developments of privately built homes intended primarily for Negroes (316 two-bedroom houses to sell for only $6,450 each...
...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
Then the West-reaching railroads got to Los Angeles-the Southern Pacific in 1876, the Santa Fe in 1885. New settlers came in expecting an oasis and found none. They set out to build an artificial one. They dug wells with imported picks, planted imported palms and eucalyptus trees, cultivated lemon, orange and nut groves and a thousand and one foreign flowers, grasses and grains. They built with imported brick and lumber. They had no domestic material but sunshine...
...Mexico City's tourist attractions, canal-laced Xochimilco, "Place of Flowers," is probably the best advertised. In their flatbottomed, flower-decked canoas, Xochimilco's boatmen pole sightseers, picnickers and lovers between the canals' eucalyptus-lined banks. Other canoes with gardenias, carnations and violets draw alongside; or gondolalike chalupas glide up while their mariachis play and sing La Paloma or Cielito Lindo. Some of the big canoas have luncheon tables in their centers at which the tourists can eat mole and tortillas and drink the famed Mexican beer...