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...Corps made its first beachhead landing in the first year of its existence, 1776. That was on New Providence, the Bahama Islands, when Captain Samuel Nicholas took 220 marines and 50 sailors ashore as the schooner Wasp and the sloop Providence laid down supporting fire. Captain Nicholas captured 71 cannon, 115 mortars, 24 casks of powder, suffered no casualties...
Where Were You on . . .? Harold George Christie, 47, Bahama born & reared, wealthy, unmarried and a close friend and real-estate associate of Sir Harry Oakes, spent the night at Westbourne, in a room 18 feet away from the murder. No servants slept in. He testified that a storm awakened him, but that he knew nothing of the tragedy until he went to call his friend for breakfast. Police Captain Edward Sears stated that he saw Christie downtown in a station wagon after the time dinner guests Dulcibel Effie Heneage and Charles Hubbard left and Sir Harry and his friend retired...
H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was a happy man last week. After months of hard work, he proudly announced that giant General Foods will lease from his colony the modern Grand Bahama fish-packing plant, give work to hundreds of the islands' unemployed...
...Grand Bahama plant had been controlled by blacklisted Capitalist Axel Wenner-Gren until February 1942, when the Duke took it away from him. Worth over $1,000,000, it has an up-to-the-minute quick-freeze plant and cannery, a fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well...
...Once Bahama Passage was in the cans, Actor Hayden enlisted in the Armed Forces...