Word: palme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Following a flowery introduction by the emcee, S-O Robert K. Allen, Miss Costello appeared in the modern equivalent of a set of palm leaves. Her first number at the Hasty Pudding Club last night, theoretically a rumba, might better be called a belly dance for want of a more inclusive definition. There were words, in Spanish, and she punctuated the more erotic parts with cires of "Eat your hearts out!" and "Teeembah...
...time for me to take off, so we ran across the primitive flying field to the already warming plane in which I was acting radioman. He laid his topee carefully on a palm stump so the slipstream wouldn't blow it off and climbed up on the wing beside my cockpit. 'So long!' he yelled above the roar of the motor. 'See you in Honolulu sometime.' Then he climbed down and stood for a few seconds with his head hanging in that quizzical way of his, his eyes looking up. Suddenly he clambered...
...raiders. Enemy bombs bracketed our encampment and a few were killed and several injured. The Marines, cursing "Tojo" tumbled from their bedrolls to their foxholes and then back to bed again. The moon broke hazily through the scudding clouds and made splotches of pale light beneath the palm and ironwood trees. It was a typical night on Guadalcanal...
Meanwhile, the routine camp life goes on. The Marines bivouacked in encampments over an area of jungles and palm trees. The palm trees here are part of the world's largest coconut plantation, owned by Lever Bros., and are the source of copra for soaps that are sold all over the globe...
...blacklisted Capitalist Axel Wenner-Gren until February 1942, when the Duke took it away from him. Worth over $1,000,000, it has an up-to-the-minute quick-freeze plant and cannery, a fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well, the plant may be expanded, more natives...