Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vengeance against England," but that, despite the pull of his "inborn prejudices," he had concluded that England's cause is the cause of freedom, of the United States and of Christianity. Tired of talk, of the vexation of spirit produced by mere babble, Father Sheehy left for Jacksonville, Fla. to join the Navy as a chaplain...
Thus starts the day for some 40 of the Navy's fledgling fliers. At 13 Naval Reserve Aviation Bases, strung across the U. S. from Opa Locka, Fla. to Oakland, Calif., the day starts in similar fashion for 380 young men, serving a 30-day apprenticeship for flight training...
Died. Brigadier General Frederic E. Humphreys, retired, 57, first Army officer to fly solo in a military plane (at College Park, Md., Oct. 26, 1909); after a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla...
...years ago shuffleboard was taken ashore, made a major sport at St. Petersburg, Fla. Most of St. Pete's winter visitors are middleaged, middle-class U. S. citizens, too churchgoing for horse racing, too homespun for golf. Shuffleboard suited them to a P and Q. From early morning till late at night, they shoved little discs over Mirror Lake Park's 103 shuffleboard courts. Every visitor tried the game at least once. Gradually they abandoned horseshoe pitching, the sport that first brought fame to St. Pete...
...Venice, Fla., a farmer complained of static in his radio. A repairman found two rattlesnakes inside...