Word: lei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu, thus putting the first Stratocruiser into commercial service on the San Francisco-Honolulu eight-hour run. Next month a second plane will probably start on the New York-Bermuda run; by fall, Trippe's $30 million fleet of 20 Stratocruisers will be deployed over Pan American's global route pattern, boosting the airline's carrying capacity a huge 40%. They will further shrink a world which aviation long ago, for better or worse, made small...
...village, Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
...than 2,000 strong before the war, has swelled to 500,000. Many of the nouveau Reds simply wanted their go at baksheesh. Until recently the new regime sold exit visas for $5,000 to $10,000. Officials and just plain Communists crowded the mountain resorts, gambling millions of lei at the casinos...
Week-Ending Columnist Hedda Hopper, on encountering lei-bearing greeters at Honolulu's airfield: "Gadzooks, what a reception for an old goat...
Second, some eight to nine billion lei worth of cattle, food and fuel have been requisitioned. Included in this is a large amount of agricultural machinery and grain. More worrisome is the fact that seed grain has also been taken. The outlook for next year's harvest is gloomy...