Word: ham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telegram from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
Gourmets can roll their tongues over chocolate yeast cakes (Chocolate Yeast Co.); two tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...
Forced to land in the wilds, what will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
Last year the Coolidge Administration announced that 1,200 Marines would be kept in Nicaragua until after the election; but that number has now been multiplied 4 times. Colonel Clifford D. Ham, who has been Nicaraguan Collector General of Customs for the past 16 years, said recently, upon resigning his post...
...Marines should not be withdrawn after the elections. It makes no difference which side wins." Colonel Ham is succeeded as Collector General by Irving A. Lindbergh, who has been Deputy Collector General for 16 years...