Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOSEPH C. STEHLIN North Miami Beach, Fla...
Saint Augustine, Fla. is proud of being the oldest city in the U. S. It is also proud of having in its ancient vicinity one of Florida's newest and most successful tourist-getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only...
Died. Father John William Rockfort Maguire, C. S. V., 57, labor mediator and onetime president of St. Viator College; of a heart attack; in Miami, Fla. Union-wise, unostentatious, Ireland-born Father Maguire settled some 86 strikes in 25 years, was termed by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins "the best trouble shooter Labor...
...Palm Beach, Fla. stare-fleeing Greta Garbo shared stares with her latest traveling companion, Dietitian Bengamin Gayelord Hauser...
...comely daughter of a pioneer Cleveland banker and industrialist, granddaughter of Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve University. Her philanthropy extends from backwoods Kentucky, where she financed a log-cabin nursery centre, to Palm Beach, Fla., where she contributes heavily to charity. She once took a flyer at improving the lot of chorus girls...