Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RUBY FOGEL LEVKOFF Miami Beach...
When prices dropped after the war, and with them the fishermen's take-home pay (based on a share in the profits), McHugh ordered each boat to limit its catch, in an effort to bolster the market. Crews that disobeyed were fined, or kept on the beach. The Federal Government refused to interfere, citing the exemption of unions from prosecution for trade monopoly under the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Then the union went a step further, ordered crews to refuse to sell fish for less than the former OPA prices...
...could still cool off and clean up in the Pacific Ocean. But in the middle of the heat and smog wave, the state Board of Health found that the local coastal waters were polluted with sewage. Promptly, if reluctantly, the board quarantined twelve miles of Los Angeles' best beach...
Sliced about the face: Roddy McDowall, 18, gangly cinemactor; in a head-on highway collision, near Santa Monica Beach...
...Miami Beach, which has been rather quiet, arrived Virginia Hill, high-strung girl friend of the late Gangster Bugsy Siegel. Virginia had flown from France, where she had swung at a reporter and kicked at photographers. Police met her at New York and engaged her in private chitchat between planes. On the Miami airfield she told reporters she had nothing to say, and, between chomps on her gum, asked them if they didn't understand English. She then joined the police again. They took her to her classy island home in Biscayne Bay, where she settled down to enjoy...