Word: monterrey
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Despite all this, nonsmoking, teetotaling Alden Roach has time to play tennis on his own court beside his big white Monterrey-style home in fashionable San Marino. He collects ships' models, thinks up nicknames for his two children (currently called Punch & Judy), whirls visitors through the shipyards in a maroon Lincoln. But what he enjoys most is contemplating Consolidated's whopping backlog of $480,261,000 (including seven types of ships and 4-to-5-in. naval ack-ack guns) and thinking up tricks to chew that backlog up faster...
...Monterrey had known for five days that it was to have an important visitor. As Franklin Roosevelt rode through the pennant-bedecked streets, señoritas threw flowers and confetti from the balconies. That night, he and Avila Camacho sat down to a seven-course dinner. While Eleanor Roosevelt tried her newly learned Spanish on Señora Camacho, the two Presidents conversed through an interpreter. Then they rose to address their countries by radio. Their speeches were filled with Good Neighborliness, but nothing much else...
...self-made darkness this Tuesday, revealed himself in Mexico. He had toured the Southern states, visited a Marine base, a WAAC training center and five Army posts, talked to various Southern Democratic Governors. Then he had crossed the border into Mexico for a conference with President Avila Camacho at Monterrey. It was the first time since 1909 that heads of the two republics had met face to face. Tuesday evening they went on the air for a joint broadcast...
...soldiers soon discovered who Mr. Bullfinch was. "Blimey, it's Winnie," they said. "Winnie's come out into the bloomin' desert." "Hey, Winnie," shouted Private Stanley Collins, an Australian, "Have you got a spare cigar?" Winnie handed over a fragrant Hoyo de Monterrey...
...Reaper, ex-Governor of Texas, dies in a train for Monterrey, where his fiancée is waiting at the altar. Peter Bounty, sheriff, supervises detection en route, has a double murderer before arrival. Pretty good...