Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crow flies between New Orleans and Kansas City the distance is 650 mi. From Kansas City to Port Arthur, Tex. it is 625 mi., from Port Arthur to New Orleans 250 mi. Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration...
With the shortest route between Kansas City and Port Arthur on the Gulf of Mexico, the K.C.S. does a good business each year carrying coal, oil and farm products. It joins the L. & A. at Shreveport. The man who built the Kansas City Southern into a first-class railroad was bush-bearded old Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R.R., ousted from his post of stewardship on the K.C.S. last year by Paine, Webber after a long-drawn-out fight at the corporate polls...
...curtailment of all loans to belligerents; prohibition of any Americans to travel on the vessels or aircraft of warring nations; and perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must be relinquished before they leave an American port. The neutrality bill fits the pressing demand for a strictly defined policy, permitting the President to stick his finger in the stew only to proclaim a "state of war" and possibly add to the embargo list...
Once English-speaking correspondents started poking around Málaga last wee they found several U. S. citizens and Britons to tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
...Coral Sea they hit bad weather. The Sirocco leaked like a screen, was ready to go to pieces until they let it run with the gale. After three days of it, more dead than alive, they reached New Guinea, found a native pilot and set out for Port Moresby. Two days away, in a sudden cyclone, the Sirocco was smashed to splinters on a reef, "kindly, lovable old Dook" drowned...