Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock one night last week, the U. S. Coast Guard Station at Jacksonville, Fla. picked up a spluttering S O S. Over the 600-metre radio band used by ships at sea came a frantic story of explosion, fire, death on the Elder Dempster (British) tanker Dunkwa, 90 miles southwest of Miami. Nobody waited to ask questions. Coast Guard cutters sped to sea, searched the calm Atlantic for miles around the given position. But no shipwreck could be found. Meantime, shipping experts ashore who knew the Dunkwa's, regular run, from Europe to West Africa, began to wonder...
FRANK L. MOORMAN Captiva Island, Fla...
...Petersburg, Fla., two ladies protested to the city manager because the drakes on Mirror Lake outnumbered the ducks, 5 to 1. Reported Public Works Head Frank Lee, to whom the complaint was referred: "I doubt whether we will be able to reason with the drakes and induce them to move elsewhere. As far as I have been able to determine, we have received no complaints from the female ducks...
...Miami, Fla. a Negress claimed a $6.75 check payable to her late husband. Asked to prove that he was dead, she answered: "I shot him and I've got papers here to prove it." Her papers did. She got the check...
...States Housing Authority, with $800,000,000 to lend to local authorities for slum clearance, more millions to grant in outright rent subsidy gifts. On July 4 he celebrated with the formal opening of USHA's first four completed projects: "Rosewood" in Austin, Tex.; "Brentwood Park" in Jacksonville, Fla.; "Lakeview" in Buffalo, N. Y.; "Red Hook" in Brooklyn. He had 41 other projects under way. By year's end he hoped to have 200 going. With his $800,000,000 authority he would have provided new, airy, sunny, low-rent housing for more than 160,000 slum families...