Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 48, Naples-born, onetime kingpin of Chicago gangdom, longtime U.S. Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...rounded up 100 tugs and towed the caissons and ships to Omaha Beach so smoothly that supply ships were unloading within the man-made harbor on D-day plus 12. At the same time, as a precaution, Moran had towed barges loaded with supplies from New York to France. Thus when a storm battered the harbors, the barges were able to unload directly on the beaches...
HARRY H. ARNOLD Hermosa Beach, Calif...
...called attention to the crash of an Eastern Airlines plane near Galax, Va., yesterday with the loss of 18 lives and to the emergency landing last week of an airliner on a Long Island, N. Y., beach...
Cartageneros knew that their battle with the other ports would be hard, that the job of moving into the mainstream of modern life would not be easy. But they had big plans. A fine new hotel set on a sand beach was already helping to establish Cartagena as a tourist center. The Great Colombian Fleet, established jointly by Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, had just gone into operation with eight newly purchased ships; soon the vessels would bring cargoes and tourists...