Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast Guard boat No. 145 sighted with her searchlight a small boat which appeared to be a U. S. vessel running without lights. The name upon her stern was covered by a canvas. Toot, toot, toot, went the Coast Guard craft, signalling for the vessel to stop. No answer. Pop, pop, pop went three blank shots from the patrol boat. Still no answer. Bang, bang went two 4-lb. shells. The vessel still refused to stop or give her name but the searchlight picked up the lettering Shawnee. upon the bow, a name which the Coast Guard knew as that...
...trade with the U. S. has doubled since 1923. Last year the Dominion purchased $55,000,000 worth of goods from the U. S. (automobiles, machinery, farm implements, clothing). The U. S. imported $8,000,000 worth of South African commodities (wool, diamonds, sheep-skins). In 1925 South Africa (pop.: 6,928,580; size: 471,917 sq. mi.) had 70,000 motors: today it has close...
...Boston, when Conductor Agide Jacchia of the Boston Symphony's "Pop" (popular) concerts suddenly resigned on the night before the season's finale, Arthur Fiedler was given the baton. He was ready for it, the first Boston-born conductor to lead the Boston Symphony...
...Hilo (pop. 18,000) is the chief city of Hawaii proper. Ranching in the old-west ern style thrives on the grassy Hawaiian uplands. Near Hilo is the biggest Hawaiian ranch, "Sam" Parker's (cattle, sheep; $600,000 per annum income). Southward rises Kilauea, home of Goddess Pele. whose volcanic antics are kept under careful observation by Dr. Thomas Augustus Jaggar of the U. S. Geological Survey...
Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...