Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fred Merkle is now a golf professional in Daytona, Fla...
Newspaper readers remarked last week the nearly simultaneous announcements of a "Genius School" at Johns Hopkins University and a "Genius Hunt'' at the Edison laboratories in West Orange, N. J. Mr. Edison, who is in Fort Myer, Fla., and has often been called a genius, did not deny that genius was what he was hunting. But from Johns Hopkins went a protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely...
Last week he earnestly and almost eagerly testified that his company was financially interested in 13 newspapers scattered from Boston to Chicago and to Tampa, Fla. His story...
...orange grove near Orlando, Fla., last month, a U. S. Department of Agriculture employe cut open an orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight?maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
...Thomas Alva Edison headed the staff appointed last week by the Fort Myers, Fla., Women's Community Club to publish an issue of the Tropical News. She wrote editorials: extolled Adolph Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...