Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diffuseness of the Empire's markets, the onetime Lord Mayor concluded: "We are frequently exhorted to copy American selling practices quite regardless of the fact that high pressure sales campaigns coupled with mass advertising in a closed market are not readily adaptable to the needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed is the discovery of the quickest way of exploiting our acknowledged pre-eminence...
...couple of champions attending the meet, from the Moses Brown School of Providence, are Marshall Kingsbury, holder of the Harvard schoolboy cross country record and the 2 mile record at the Brown interscholastic meet, and George Weaver, high jump champion of Rhode Island, who has done 5 feet 11 inches...
...goldilock delicacy of Vivian Martin, oldtime cinema ingenue, fails to redeem the bromides which she has to deliver in her cracked little voice. All three acts are set in a modernistic cottage, so turbulently red and orange that it resembles the façade of a Coney Island rollercoaster. This play had a run of 18 weeks in Chicago as Companionate Marriage...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...
Asia and Back. All alone, Parker Cramer took off last week from Nome, Alaska, flew out over ice-filled Bering Strait, dropped packages at Cape Wales and on Diomede Island, reached East Cape in Siberia, returned to Nome: 400 mi. roundtrip. Next flight: from Nome to New York (not non-stop...