Word: stuccos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment NBC installed in the garage adjoining Engineer Smith's pleasant stucco house was similar to that used in its Long Island listening post. It has three receivers constantly beamed on Tokyo, Saīgon and Chungking. The three receivers are due to be manned from 4 a.m. to early afternoon, best time for the area covered, and will be monitored at other times when hot news is expected or when reception at the Long Island listening post...
...Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza, many another hostelry where the cheaper rooms went...
...centre of Bucharest, just across the street from one of the grandiose new palace wings with which Carol II busied his last months as Rumania's King, stands the Athenee Palace Hotel. It is a six-story, 200-room structure with a clean face of white stucco. Some call it the laboratory, some the lavatory, of Balkan politics. Its bar buzzes with political gossip and its marble-pillared lounge teems with blondes, top hats, beards, uniforms and monocles. Being the best hotel in Bucharest, it has always been the favorite hangout of the British...
...Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night of April 16, 1917, arrived Vladimir Hitch Lenin. He was late: like most Russian trains, even the train bringing Lenin to the Revolution was not on time...
...Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich, Pines Camp today has a $50,000 plant complete with 55 modern stucco cottages (hot water, steam heat, electricity, private bath & shower, etc.), filling station, restaurant, laundry, grocery store and trailer grounds. Monthly payroll for the camp's 27 employes runs about $1,000. In the busy fall-winter-spring season it grosses $250 on good days, last year netted a comfortable...