Word: tins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landing at Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden, Ambassador & Mrs. Jacoby and their suite entered a private train for the 780-mi. journey to New Flower, the tin-roofed capital of the King of Kings. New Flower, or Addis Ababa, is hidden among mighty mountains at an altitude of more than 6,000 ft. To this barbaric stronghold the Jacobys carried officially an autographed photograph of President Hoover, described as "handsomely framed." Unofficial, privately-paid-for U. S. Coronation gifts include...
...America. On its way it crossed only two tiny points of land: Nurakita, an inaccessible island, and Niuafou in the Tonga group, home of 1,500 Polynesian natives. Because it stands so proudly high in a treacherous sea, ships can not approach Niuafou. Mail is sent to shore in tin cans. Hence the island is familiarly called Tin Can Island. Astronomers had no choice. To see the eclipse they had to dare a difficult landing, pack themselves and their apparatus upon the inhabitable two square miles of Niuafou with the Polynesians. For baggage they carried materials...
...taken me a year to speak of it. ... But this is not the only reason I shall not write any more about Arizona. . . . The Game Commission and the Forest Service have gone over to the commercial interests. . . . The Grand Canyon on the North Rim is a tin-can gasoline joint and the hunting season is a shambles...
...21?Total eclipse of the sun: at Niuaffoou ("Tin-Can") Island, Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean...
...21?Total eclipse of the sun; at Niuafoou ("Tin-Can") Island, Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean...