Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next evening, to the oak-paneled throne room of Holyroodhouse, where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared...
Wearing a WPA badge and serving as a volunteer policeman at the scene of the discovery of the bodies was slim, 32-year-old Albert Dyer who had known the three little girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls...
...July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from her about once an hour. Her final message said she had only half-an-hour's gas left, could not see land. She still gave no position and the Itasca's direction finder could not get a bearing because she had failed...
...guard against the fluctuations which characterize Mincing Lane pepper trading, margins are closely regulated on the New York Pepper Futures Market, daily fluctuations are limited to 1? per lb. per day and pepper stocks must be kept in licensed warehouses subject to inspection. The trading unit is 33,600 lb. of Lampong (Netherlands East Indies) black pepper, with Aleppy and Tellicherry (British India) as optional deliveries. Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper...
...been just a little higher, he would have cleared Hardy Ridge, had a safe path on to the airport. As it was, the plane was smashed into confetti and completely buried by snow. At week's end no bodies had yet been recovered and postal inspectors stood guard with guns while they salvaged a rich batch of gems...