Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maneuvers one night last week near Camp Blanding, Fla., the loth Medical Regiment, night-foundered, weary, was glad indeed to hear the order to bivouac. One unit in particular got its pup tents up in jigtime. It had found a nice level space in the heavy woods. They turned in, slept like logs. Screeching brakes of an unlighted ambulance woke them. They had camped in the middle of a road...
Martinique is Vichy's Caribbean hinge, equidistant (about 1,400 miles) from the Panama Canal and Key West, Fla. The U.S. has no particular reason to be in Martinique-but it has every reason to keep an enemy out. Once strongly based there, hostile naval and air power would be an effective, intolerable menace to the Canal, the Caribbean, the U.S. and its sea and airlanes to Latin America...
Triangle. In West Palm Beach, Fla., Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard of Surrey, England, answering her husband's divorce charge that she had not seen or written him, cited the "machinations, generally unsocial conduct, and aggressive attitude of a third party, one Adolf Hitler...
Died. William Haskell Coffin, 63, artist, whose pretty-girl pastels appeared for years on national magazine covers; a suicide; at a hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla...
Died. Harry E. Thurston, 67, ex-vaude-villian, brother of the late, great Prestidigitator Howard Thurston; in Miami, Fla...