Word: florida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given in the afternoon at the Guggenheim Aeronautical laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following the course of lectures there will be primary flight training at Squantum. Those who are successful in passing this training will be sent to the Naval Flying School at Pensacola, Florida, for an eight months course. The training at Pensacola includes more than 200 hours of flying, which is sufficient for a transport license. Those who qualify at Pensacola will be commissioned and offered active duty in the Fleet for a year, after which they revert to reserve status...
Such leisure as he possesses he spends in California, Florida or on his 800-acre farm near Chicago. On this farm he raises, appropriately, bulls...
...Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights. That experience gave him a personal interest in the present Byrd expedition; his job gave him a practical interest. Hence his cablegram to Commander Byrd last week: "Dunedin, Florida, joins Dunedin, New Zealand, in hailing your expedition and extending best wishes for your courageous venture-Dunedin (Florida) Chamber of Commerce." The message -was shrewdly repeated to U. S. newspapers and brought valuable attention to Dunedin (Florida). It cost the Chamber...
...complete Hoover itinerary was announced (see Map, p. 18) -Amapala (Honduras), La Union (Salvador), Corinto (Nicaragua), Puntarenas (Costa Rica), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Callao and Lima (Peru), Valparaiso, Santiago and Los Andes (Chile), Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uraguay), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Havana, perhaps Mexico, perhaps Texas, to Florida...
...last week. Twenty of them gathered at New Orleans to confer. The most eminent Governor of all, New York's Smith, was not far from New Orleans, golfing and fishing at Biloxi, Miss. But he did not "take in" the conference. Maryland's Ritchie was over in Florida, but he, too, kept his vacation inviolate. Other notable absentees from the New Orleans meeting were Mississippi's Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller, who, in the course of winding up his administration, punctuated...