Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University of Tampa Tampa, Fla...
Rubber Worker. In Clearwater, Fla., a passer of worthless checks, imprisoned, used a trusty as an errand boy, passed two more...
...MARKHAM St. Petersburg, Fla...
Billy Lovett stopped minding his own business after one of his Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co.'s three freighters (outmoded World War I destroyers which he converted into banana ships) happened upon the stricken La Paz, towed her toward shore. A mile and a half off Cocoa, Fla. she sank in the mud and Government engineers despaired of salvaging her. But Lovett, with a $500,000 salvage claim against her owner, decided to heed the call of "patriotism and profit." At the U.S. marshal's sale, he bought her (for $10,000), set out to float her again...
Fattest human being ever known to medical science was the late Mrs. Ruth G. Pontico of Tampa, Fla., who was 5 ft. 5¶ in. tall and weighed 772½ lb. This conclusion, the result of a long series of study of the proper anatomical dimensions of mankind, was made by David P. Willoughby, of the vertebrate paleontology department at the California Institute of Technology. Discoverer Willoughby reported his findings in a Johns Hopkins' periodical, Human Biology...