Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg, Fla...
Last week, after turning in a carefully itemized expense account ($248.67), he gave his first report: on Camp Blanding, near Jacksonville, Fla., and Fort George G. Meade, 20 miles north of the capital, Representative Engel's words grated harshly on the ears of the Quartermaster Corps. For he had found plenty to document the suspicion that, at least in Camps Meade and Blanding, the Quartermaster Corps had been guilty of bad planning and blundering stupidity. Examples...
Fishing done and seas roughening, at week's end the Potomac put in at Port Everglades, Fla., where the President polished up a short speech, broadcast it that night to the postponed national Jackson Day dinners of the Democrats. The most unpolitical Jackson Day address in history, the speech was a homely little essay on national unity. Said the President: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am sitting in the little cabin of the little ship Potomac, in the harbor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a day of sunshine out in the Gulf Stream. ... In Washington, as you know, the working...
When Corpus Christi swings into peak operation in July, its 800 instructors will get 300 raw cadets every month. By that time the Navy's new air station at Jacksonville, Fla. will be at capacity (200 a month) its third air training station, Pensacola, up to 300. But Corpus Christi will be the only station where the full flying course (primary, basic and full advanced training) is given...
Last week, somewhere in the Pacific, two U. S. naval planes collided. Six men died. At Opa Locka, Fla., a naval training plane fell out of control, the pilot's parachute did not open, and he was killed. An Army Air Corps lieutenant crashed, fatally, in the Panama Canal Zone. An Army fighter crashed near Mitchel Field, L. I., another Army plane had a forced landing near Buffalo. The pilots of both planes survived...