Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee last week also agreed that carriers which go through the wringer should still be allowed to figure their excess-profits tax base on their old capitalization. Chicago & Northwestern, Missouri Pacific, Florida East Coast, New Haven, many other roads are still hiding in the courts; under the present law their taxes would be many times higher the minute they come out. Last week's tax-law change would do more to speed railroad reorganization than anything since Section 77 of the National Bankruptcy Act became...
...Since then he has led an up-&-down life that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such disparate ventures as peddling old Haitian ships to the U.S. Government in World War I; driving a milk truck in Wilmington; buying and selling land in Florida's real estate boom...
...Florida to Bangalore. It was Florida real estate that led him-with Pawley luck and Pawley supersalesmanship-into aviation. After selling some airfields to the old Curtis-Wright Flying Service, he bootstrapped himself into the vice president's chair of a Cuban flying service. He finally sold out at a sweet profit to Pan American Airways which just then was getting a start in Latin America...
First round of the American offensive in the Solomon Islands was over. The Navy had announced that the three islands where the Marines had landed-probably Florida, Tulagi and Guadalcanal-had been captured. There might still be bands of Japs to be mopped up in bloody battles in the interior hills and jungles, but the opening battle was over and the Americans...
...perhaps did not wholly know. But U.S. naval censors at last permitted the press to report one of the reasons for the drop, in one area where sinkings had been appallingly high. The reason: the Navy was convoying coastal shipping in the Western Atlantic, from Maine to Florida...