Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...influential generals of doubtful loyalty; and General Almazán has gallantly availed himself of this tradition. From Cárdenas he got lucrative concessions to build railroads, hotels, villages, roads (among them sections of the great Pan American Highway). He opened up slack Acapulco as a tourist resort. While his rival Camacho was suppressing Cedillo, Almazán took a handsome cut of the bandit's swag. Now a very rich man who lives in a flashy, gringo-haunted eyrie high above Monterrey, Almazán is tall, heavy but trim from swimming and riding. With his hazel...
Bandsman Burtenshaw dedicated himself to the drum when he was three. In June 1890, before he was eight, he joined a Salvationist band at England's breezy Channel resort, Brighton. In 1911, Founder Booth sent Brigadier Burtenshaw to the U. S. to organize other Army bands. From behind his drum he has led bands ever since, has a healthy contempt for cockatoo drum majors who simply strut...
Summerville is a winter resort in South Carolina. At its paint-thirsty town hall last week, under a blazing sun that sent the temperature to 110°, two of its residents - a Finnish-born, 40-year-old doctor named Arne Suominen and an eleven-year-old race horse named Duke-began a 40-mile race.* The course: to Charleston (27 miles), then 13 miles around The Citadel's foot-racing track...
Unlike most exhibitionists, neither doctor nor horse received anything for their effort last week (except possibly a little publicity for the doctor's health resort). To the Finnish Relief and the Red Cross went the $65 gate receipts taken in at The Citadel campus, the $50 the doctor wagered and some $200 in local side bets...
...local Boxer Uprising. By last week the three burning unknowns in the truly World War were Russia, Japan, the U. S. Japan's diplomatic offensive touched off an intricate interplay which threatened to put the U. S. in a position where it must fight a naval war or resort to appeasement in the Pacific...