Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grahame-White, famed British aero-engineer, is widely known as an international yachtsman, a minor big-game hunter, and a member of the famed Eccentrics' Club of London. His marriage in 1916 to Ethel Grace Levey, divorced wife of George M. Cohan, has resulted in making his villa at Palm Beach, "Miraflores," the Mecca of numerous vacationing thespians. Hence there were many who rejoiced last week at Mr. Grahame-White's success in selling his famed Hendon Airdrome at London to the British Government...
...railway between Chinwangtao and Peking had been "completely cut by insurgent soldiery." Next day 200 U. S. tourists were landed at Chinwangtao from the globe-circling SS. Carinthia. Their indomitable conductor chartered a train and started out over the supposedly obliterated railway. By the aid of a little palm oil he persuaded the detachments of soldiery along the way to replace such segments of the track as they had torn up and carried into the woods. Triumphantly the tourists rumbled into Peking, none the worse for their adventure...
...wire business is quite seasonal. Every summer, wires are established to New England and the summer resorts. Just now an unprecedented demand has arisen for wires to Miami, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach and other Florida centres. To a less extent, the same thing may be said for many other parts of the South. The southern demand for security-trading wire facilities has arisen not only from the South's popularity as a winter recreation centre, but also from its marked prosperity this year...
...mostly customs duties) and expenditures of the country are less than half a million dollars a year, and foreign commerce is about three times as much. There are no railroads; there are about 55 miles of roads suitable for automobiles. Cotton goods, gin and tobacco are leading imports; rubber, palm oil, coffee, ivory, etc. are the chief exports. Rubber gets into the category of a chief product, not because there are 22 varieties of rubber trees and plants growing in the jungle, but because there is one rubber plantation recently established, which brought 1,200 acres of rubber plantation into...
...egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling orange, lemon, grapefruit trees, no water. Paradise has gone...