Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Bessie Coleman, 26, "the world's only Negro aviatrix"; at Jacksonville, Fla., after a half-mile nose dive made by her plane when its controls became jammed by a monkey wrench...
...Orlando, Fla...
Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here...
...chiefly small-town gear.* Last week he announced a gift of half a million dollars to construct a building containing 100 small apartments to be occupied, rent-free, by aged Evangelical ministers. This home of God's retired servants will be located at Green Cove Springs, Fla., on the St. John's River. Mr. Penney's summer home is in Belle Isle, Miami Beach...
...other, or standing bent in an interminable stance, one golfer will say to another, "Heavens, don't drive, Marjorie! That must be John D. Rockefeller." Last week Mr. Rockefeller gave answer to his mockers. He walked out onto a tee of his course at Ormond Beach, Fla., selected a driver, and chatted for a few moments with a lady. Then he stooped, bowed his head, and struck. The white ball flew 156 yards to the green, bounded exuberantly toward the cup. Mr. Rockefeller shouted for joy. He traversed at a brisk trot the distance that separated him from...