Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is John Daly . . .calling CBS in London. . . . I've good news-great news. . . . Land is near. . . . Flocks of migrating birds have been flying overhead. . . . A branch was fished out of the water with the leaves still fresh, and a little flower clinging to it. ... Perhaps it will be hours yet, but not a man on board...
...signal . . . from the Pinta! [shouts of 'Tierra! Tierra!'] Land! Land! ... I see it, too. A white sand cliff gleaming! . . . Pandemonium has broken loose here on the deck of the Santa Maria. . . . I'm all choked up. ... I return you now to CBS in London...
...analysis of the news, CBS London then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
Though tea will now cost 64? to $1.15 a lb. retail, the prices are a far cry from the $4 to $15 a lb. it brought in 1660, when it was first offered by London's Thomas Garway, a coffee-house proprietor. He plugged it as "good against crudities, strengthening the weakness of the Ventricle or Stomack, causing good Appetite and Digestion, and particularly for Men of a corpulent Body and such as are great eaters of Flesh...
Suburbs & Seaside. After three years of fire raids on South London, it was characteristic of Betjeman (who worked at the Admiralty) to celebrate one of the homelier disappearances...