Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist. I wanted to be a good businessman like my father." He was accordingly delighted when, at 16, he became manager of the Deauville branch of Mary's Paris cosmetics firm. When the U.S. entered World War I he joined the Air Corps, served in Tennessee and Florida till the Armistice...
Experiments with special wax sprays occupied part of the time of the botanists, but their attention was soon turned to the more practical question of how long the foliage would stand up under battle conditions. Research parties were sent to Florida and to the Army Engineers Headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Virginia to help compile the facts on camouflage to be used in the tropical and north temperate zones, respectively...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper was astounded. Did the witness mean that 85 out of every 100 are ill? He did, although that is the annual rate...
...four Liberator squadrons in Brigadier General Ted Timberlake's group, now famed as "Ted's Flying Circus" (TIME, Oct. 18). Ben kept his fingers crossed, never even went to nearby Shreveport for fear of getting into trouble. Twice when the squad ron moved (to Florida, then England) they talked of leaving him behind. Both times he begged to go, made...
...orchid and many thanks for your article on Florida (TIME, Jan. 10). I have just finished reading it, while I . . . wait here in the U.S.O. at Washington's Union Station for a train to get me back to my ship-I hope before she sails without...