Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect castaways in shark-infested seas, the Navy announced a shark-repellent substance. A secret concoction which sharks abhor, it was developed by the Office of Scientific Research & Development in cooperation with Marine Studies, Inc., was tested in waters off Florida and Ecuador...
Like any other soldiers, airmen learn more in a few hours of fighting than in months of training; the smart ones convert their varied experiences to new techniques of battle. Last week on the palm-and pine-dotted sands of central Florida the Army Air Forces showed how it was spreading these new arts of war through squadrons fighting around the world...
...saltwater fisherman. Outside of surf and bay fishing, there are only a few spots where saltwater angling is allowed: notably in the Pacific off Southern California's Santa Monica pier, where chartered boats may go as far as ten miles offshore ; in some parts of the Florida keys ; and the famed tarpon paradise at Aransas Pass in Texas. To fish in any salt waters requires a Coast Guard Permit...
Illegal. In Florida's Supreme Court, Willis Abram Briggs, who said he had fallen ill as a result of a fleabite, lost his fight for workmen's compensation because he had felt the flea bite him but had not actually seen it happen...
...Singapore falls, so will the present British cabinet." - June 23, 1942: ". . . FBI men are swarming through Florida swamps because . . . Nazi submarine crews, in civilian clothes, are at large [there]." (Confirmed five days later...