Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hepburn Board. In addition to extending a defensive half-circle from Alaska to Guam to Samoa around the Navy's present westernmost major stronghold at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, these would include a new base in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico, expansion of aviation facilities at Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. Companion Army measures would allot $62,000,000 to strengthen Panama Canal defenses, supplement naval bases in the Atlantic and Pacific with Army personnel and equipment...
Died. Merritt Hulburd, 35, sometime associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post, cinema producer (Dodsworth, Dead End, Stella Dallas, The Hurricane); after long illness; in West Palm Beach, Fla...
Fort Myers, Fla...
...Plymouth, Fla...
Divorced. Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart Ross, 66, inventor of the Ross rifle and one of the largest landowners in the British Empire; from his second wife, U. S.-born Patricia Ellison; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grounds: desertion. The Ross divorce case has languished in British, U. S. and Mexican courts since 1924. In 1928 Lady Ross finally got a divorce in Edinburgh, only to have it canceled next year by the House of Lords...