Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widespread meat famine before. Last week TIME'S correspondents in 139 cities - the centers of every area in the U.S. - reported on it. In all the U.S. there were only half a dozen cities in which the shortage was not acute. The lucky six: Boise, Idaho; Tallahassee, Fla. ; Douglas, Ariz.; Austin, Corpus Christi and Laredo, Texas...
...A.A.F.'s Pinecastle Field, near Orlando, Fla., where afternoon thunderheads are a daily midsummer occurrence, five Black Widow planes take off each day to fly in the hazardous clouds. Guided by a radar control station called Ivy, and attended by a host of balloon-borne instruments, they measure air turbulence, the velocity of up-and downdrafts, temperature, pressure, humidity, 'cloud heights, the size of ice particles. Though no planes have been lost, they have taken a fearful buffeting; one pilot, whose instruments were knocked out by lightning, found when he fought his way out of the storm that...
...there is a great deal of baggage endlessly sailing the skies like the Flying Dutchman, transferred from plane to plane and city to city forever." (One Reno-to-San Francisco passenger's brief case, containing $50,000 worth of building plans, turned up days later in St. Petersburg, Fla...
...Eustis, Fla...
Then Mary got married, and set up school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something...