Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grapefruit League Baseball...
...President's: half a grapefruit and a cup of coffee; Mamie's: a cup of Sanka, a piece of toast...
...first morning, even though he had not turned in until 2 a.m. He put on a brown business suit, a white shirt and brown figured tie, sat down in his bedroom to eat a breakfast alone (his usual: a half grapefruit and cup of coffee). He was just two minutes behind his own schedule when he got in his office downstairs at 8:02. (To a staff member who complained mildly about his early starting hour, Ike said jovially: ''You change. You're younger...
...Canaries, he spotted a light flashing ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs, bread, a pot of jam, coffee...
...best way to teach the Gospel to the natives was to teach them American technical skills at the same time. From the Liberian government LeTourneau leased 500,000 acres of jungle for 80 years at 6? an acre, laid plans to cultivate the land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits into the development. With such material aid, LeTourneau, who is flying ahead "to be there when the boat rams that beach," hopes to accomplish a material and spiritual Point Four. Says...