Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavy hydrogen was king of the meeting of the American Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week. Its discoverer, Dr. Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia University, opened a heavy hydrogen symposium with a review of its history before 700 members...
...Petersburg, Fla. last week, the score was 3-to-2 in favor of the New York Yankees, playing an exhibition game against the Boston Braves. In the eighth inning, Boston's famed Shortstop Rabbit Maranville, who in the fifth inning had hit his first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie...
Life Member Ky. and Fla. Press Assns. Kentucky Colonel on Staff of Gov. J. I). Black, 1920. First Honors Public Schools of Louisville, 1878. Sidney...
...sang with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera Company for five seasons. As his operatic fame increased, Robert Ringling began to show an interest in his family's affairs. Before the Chicago Civic Opera ceased to operate, he became president of the Ringling Trust & Savings Bank at Sarasota, Fla., where the Ringling circuses have their winter quarters. Recently that bank liquidated, paying off all depositors in full. Last week Robert Ringling decided to give up his operatic career. The announcement was by Samuel W. Gumpertz, Ringling general manager, in Sarasota, as the Ringling Circus prepared to open its season...
...twin-engined bomber with a crew of three and the southbound mail, landed at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...