Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven years ago Lady Diana and some friends formed a company to sell the gravel from the beach in front of her summer place at Bognor Regis on England's south coast. There beauteous Lady Diana slopped the hogs, kept two swarms of bees, tended two goats, 30 chickens, milked The Princess (a cow). "The Princess is such a lovely cow," said she. "I simply adore her. And she gives so much good milk...
Fishermen. Off Palm Beach, Fla., a 426-lb. blue marlin simultaneously bit on the hooks of two fishing ministers. At Key West a motorist drove into a canal, trapped two snappers inside...
Last month was the first July in ten years in which the New York Telephone Co. put in more telephones than it took out. The score: 1,687 net installations v. 3,393 net removals in July 1940. A reason: unusual number of beach cottages rented by defense workers...
...Wrote the head of Sol-Ray Engineering Co. (sun-heated water systems) from Day tona Beach, Fla., begging for copper: "Is our business going to be ruined along with the investment? If so, what is a man of 50 with a family going to do. . .?" This week, copper went under full priorities...
Married. Torchsinger Helen Morgan, 36; and Lloyd Johnson, 41, Los Angeles auto dealer; each for the second time; in Miami Beach. She divorced Maurice Maschke Jr., son of Cleveland's late Republican boss...