Word: maps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a map drawn by the late Admiral George Dewey, the S. S. Maryland fetched up and hove to off Cape San Lucas, lower California. Two launches were lowered for a late-afternoon fishing expedition. Captain Victor A. Kimberley, the Maryland's commander, put off in a third boat to act as a patrol against unimaginable dangers from the desolate Mexican shore. In his hands rested the safety of his country's President-elect...
Tall though the tales of Fisherman Zane Grey et al. may be, and excellent though the map of Admiral Dewey, the waters off Cape San Lucas were not full of huge, hungry denizens that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark...
...Soviet textile industry is up to an export total of 140,000,000 meters of textile goods for the past twelve-month-as against 192,000,000 meters exported in the record year 1913. These figures indisputably show that Dictator Stalin is rapidly putting Russia back on the map as a country of huge exports- but is there any kind of joker in this indicated trend...
...White House. . . . "His career is marked with the callouses of struggle and achievement. He has pursued ambition along the corn-row, across the furrow, into laboratory, down mine shaft, into great administrative and engineering projects. . . . "His university is Leland Stanford, but his true Alma Mater is the map of the world. . . . "A vote for Hoover is a vote for belching smokestacks, flaring furnaces, clanging hammers, busy looms, honest and permanent agricultural relief - a vote for peak production, for steady employment, for the song of the riveter, for more automobiles - a vote for better government, for sounder business practice, for full...
...plot tends toward the melodramatic, with a correct and fatuous happy ending--very satisfactory from the perfectionist point of view. One perceives in the first forty pages that dirty work is afoot; the dirty work is done; it is straightened out, and if, with the aid of a map inside the cover, one untangles the maze of proper names, one can comprehend and appreciate the situations in the sugar intrigue...