Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tampa, Fla., Kimoto Toono, Japanese sailor, went ashore from his ship to spear small fish. So as not to lose his gig (spear), he fastened the end of the rope around his body. Then he sighted a 340-lb. jewfish, speared it, was pulled off the dock, out to sea, drowned. Next day searchers found Gigger Toono and his jewfish...
...having a population over 100,000 were shown last week to have increased from 68 in 1920 to 93 this year. The 93 contain more than one-fourth of the U. S. population. Notable among newcomers to this list were Fort Worth, Tex. (160,892), Flint, Mich. (156.422), Miami, Fla. (110.025), Tacoma, Wash. (106,837), Lynn (102,327), and Lowell (100,300), Mass, (textile centres...
Chicago police last week arrested a suspect of the murder of Jake Lingle, Chicago Tribune racketeer-reporter (TIME, June 23 et seq.). But again the actual murder case was obscured by the audacity of the St. Louis Star's Reporter Harry T. Brundidge. Reporter Brundidge went to Miami Beach, Fla. to interview Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, following up the theory that Lingle was only one of many corrupt newsmen. From Florida Brundidge sent his paper a sensational story. Excerpt...
Near Newport, Fla., W. J. Singletary, Florida State Senator, set out to warn two brothers Sauls that they could cut no more timber on his land. The Sauls answered with gunshots. Senator Singletary was taken to a hospital with both eyes shot out, bullet wounds in his back...
Brock & Schlee. From Detroit and the routine of commerce re-emerged last week Edward Frederick Schlee and William S. Brock (Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp ), once famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last...