Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Camp Blanding, Fla. to Fort Lewis, Wash, the U.S. Army plugged at battle training. The emphasis was on operations of the battalion Majors, younger and slimmer than the Army had seen since World War I, led their outfits far into the field to march and dig in combat exercises. The Army, after the biggest field maneuver ever, in 1941, was preparing for field exercises...
Married. Joseph B. ("Tinker to Evers to Chance") Tinker, 61, member of baseball's famed double-play combination in the early 1900s; and Susanna Margaret Chabot, 40; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Orlando, Fla...
...severe has been Lord Beaverbrook's asthma since he arrived in the U.S. last month that he has not been able to apply his genius to Anglo-American production. Instead, wearing only blue shorts and a black Homburg, he has been sunning himself at Miami Beach, Fla. Said he: "It is true that I suffer from both temperament and asthma but the asthma is a damn sight worse than the temperament...
Kirkpatrick scholarships to Richard R. Baxter, of New York, N. Y., candidate for A.B. Brown '42; Albert I. DaSilva, of Freeport, N. Y., candidate for A.B. New York University '42; Jerome Kinkelstein, of Jacksonville, Fla., candidate for A.B. Indiana University '42; Jacob H. Martin, of Blowing Rock, N. C., candidate for A.B. Oberlin '42; and Edgar J. Masters, of Lowellville, Ohio, candidate for A.B. Ohio University...
John H. Swisher & Son, Inc., big Jacksonville, Fla. cigar manufacturer, recently took a good look at the well-equipped machine shop, part of their highly mechanized plant, and their complacency exploded. Previously, they had thought they were doing pretty well by chipping in thousands of dollars in tobacco taxes, and buying defense bonds to fight...