Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cars- Heeding the public alarm about Sudden Death in highway accidents, the motormakers now soft-pedal speed. Though a number of makes will go 100 m.p.h. and nearly all will go faster this year than last, every Show visitor was handed a brochure on safe & sane driving...
...Another early visitor was Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations. According to Admiral Standley, he and his Commander-in-Chief "talked fishing and the Navy." Still talking Navy two days later, the President made Navy Day (Roosevelt I's birthday) the occasion to write Secretary of the Navy Swanson that in the light of world conditions it was "imperative" to "increase-the strength of the American Navy to a degree commensurate with America's needs, interests and responsibilities...
...Vagabond rolled over and was soon asleep. But this morning he has not forgotten his visitor, and will leave his Tower at ten to hear about the "Origin and Surface Features of the Moon...
...pineapple (really a 400-ton water tank in disguise) on the roof of the Dole cannery. And along with Diamond Head. Pearl Harbor, Waikiki Beach and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, the Dole cannery, where drinking fountains spurt pineapple juice instead of water, is a famed Hawaiian spot that no visitor is allowed to miss. Hawaiians like Mr. Dole, father of their pineapple industry, because although the sugar industry grosses more dollars, sugar eaters do not care where that commodity comes from, whereas most pineapple eaters associate that fruit with the Islands. And Mr. Dole had a very profitable enterprise, with...
...nonchalantly into the Dunster House dining room, to see how college boys dine. A sinister conspiracy was slowly unfolded in one corner. And then a waiter, smiling villain, made for the unhappy cat, skillfully disguising his evil intentions. And now comes the horrible part. He grabbed the pleasant little visitor by the nape of the neck and strode heartlessly out into the kitchen. The Pioneers are anxiously awaiting the product of Mr. Verbeck's infernal machine...