Word: teas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September, the dread typhoon season. The late rice was in flower. The typhoon, striking at 60 m. p. h. and increasing to 120 m. p. h., headed straight into the dragon's throat where are the great tea plantations, the textile and munitions factories of Japan's second largest city, Osaka, the great port of Kobe, and ancient imperial Kyoto. These are three of Japan's five biggest cities...
With Secretary of War Bern ashore to observe and report on Rhode Island textile troubles (see p. 22), the President declared a week-end holiday from official business. On Sunday he invited Challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith and Defender Harold Stirling Vanderbilt to tea aboard the Nourmahal, chatted about the disappointment of seeing the first race called for time, wished both sides the best of luck and better racing weather the coming week...
Died. Jo Mendi, II, most popular chimpanzee in the U. S.; of trench mouth; in Detroit. He was the main attraction in Jo Mendi's Little Chimpanzee Theatre in which, a dozen times a day, he and six younger chimps imitated human beings by riding bicycles, drinking tea, roller skating. NRA cut the number of Jo Mendi's daily performances to two. Last year he earned...
...Stone, to the West Indies, Europe, China, is now stationed with him in Washington, D.C. Shapely, sprightly, a crackling talker, she has produced, besides a daughter, five books by the way (others: Letters to a Djinn, The Heaven and Earth of Dona Elena, The Almond Tree, The Bitter Tea of General...
Today Jewel Tea sells more coffee than anything else but fundamental policies have not changed a whit. Its line has been broadened to include toilet articles, soap, spices, baking powder, rice, other packaged staples. But the Jewel Man in the Jewel Ford truck still makes his fortnightly calls on 800,000 housewives scattered up & down some 1,500 routes. Rural country is avoided because of the time wasted in bumping from one farm to the next. Villages and small cities where houses are close and people neighborly are Jewel's choice territories...