Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sneaks. In Palm City, Calif., two men stole a house...
...flaxseed (up 150% to 4,440,000 acres) and peanuts (up 300% to 4,827,000 acres). With a 33% acreage gain, soybeans and flaxseed will overtake cotton; peanuts have already outstripped rye. Soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed, grown mostly for their oil, now replace the coconut, palm and linseed oil imported by the tankerful before the war. But soybeans also make top-notch fodder and Henry Ford has even made a soybean plastic automobile. Flax makes linen; peanuts make tasty, vitamin-rich soldier rations...
Four nights later, 1,100 miles south along the Atlantic Coast, a second submarine surfaced, crawled towards shore. Again four men pushed off in a collapsible boat, paddled into palm-bordered Ponte Vedra Beach near Jacksonville. The second batch of silent men made a cache in the sand, headed north...
...Atlantic City's big Convention Hall last week milled some 10,000 doctors, a handful in major's and colonel's uniforms, the majority in Palm Beach suits. They were members of the American Medical Association, in 93rd annual convention assembled-having a last, five-day fling before they abandoned their practices and specialties for war work...
...Miss Moore, I'm all aflutter," gasped Harvard's handsomest man, footballer Don Forte, last evening, after he had been prematurely selected by the Adams House Committee as Miss Moore's "prettiest" choice from among the Beau Brummels of the Gold Coast. Debonair in palm beach tuxedo instead of shoulder pads, "Handsome Don" wilted under the rapid-fire kisses (Hollywood brand) of Miss Moore as she forced her attentions and the all-College title on the shy young hero...