Word: hawaii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every shipment leaving the country. Foreign police departments were asked to help. One by one reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...
...Internal Revenue" contains a widely assorted group of impressions, experiences, and other scraps gathered here and there between Bermuda and Hawaii, plus a few literary appreciations and a rotogravure section. The rotogravure section contains photographs of treasures culled from the author's scrapbook--holographs, playbills, autographed pictures, manuscripts. The best part of the book is the chapter titled "Briefcase", containing essays on literary subjects, beginning with a delightful appreciation of Louis Hind's "100 Second Best Poems" and ending with an almost moving discussion of Remarque's "The Road Back". The worst part of the book is that headed "Three...
Pantophagous is the shark. Its stomach is the ocean's garbage can. Its digestive fluid, dropped on a man's hand, will take off the skin. In over 30 years of shark-hunting off Hawaii, the U. S., Africa, the West Indies, Australia, Captain William E. ("Sharky Bill") Young has learned not to be surprised at anything he finds when he rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found...
...disaster. And high in the history of the headline are Bonfils' own gems, the first, five inches tall, to commemorate a minor psychological convention, screamed out, "Does it Hurt to be Born?"; the second appeared when the round the world flyers were pulled out of the sea off Hawaii "Praise God, They're Safe...
...before the A. F. of L. resolution, Administrator Ickes had allotted $5,411,900 for 61 projects in 22 States and Hawaii. The day after, he fortified his reply to Labor by another $10,095,068 allocation. Most of it went in the form of 30% grants, 70% loans at 4% interest. San Francisco was to have a low-rent housing development; Princeton, N. J. an incinerator; Fort Steilacoom, Wash, a hospital; Buffalo, N. Y. a storm drain. Other projects included airport developments, schools, bakeries, libraries, waterworks, power plants...