Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, two months after the spies had landed on Long Island and Florida beaches, one month after their trial began, ended the biggest spy case in U.S. history. The U.S. still knew less about the case than about any one of its daily, tawdry crimes of passion. The record was sealed until after...
General Yount's Flying Training Command now had scores upon scores of war-emergency fields, hacked quickly out of the U.S. earth from Florida to California. It had men by scores upon scores of thousands, learning how to fly, navigate, shoot, bomb. And FTC was still growing-for if air power can win the war, then General Yount's schools are the cradle of victory...
Author of The Twenty-Second Letter is CBS's most promising young dramatist, 27-year-old Ranald R. MacDougall. A former Western Union messenger, Florida fisherman (for food, not fun) and Radio City Music Hall usher, MacDougall started writing continuity for NBC in 1936, also did documentary programs on Americana for BBC. Free-lancing since last March, he persuaded Norman Corwin to let him write two This Is War programs. Then CBS signed...
...look like a Napoleonic commander, performing a miracle of military endurance. He was only a plain, lanky, thin-lipped American, with a weather-beaten face, a dour smile, a sunburned neck: he might have been a hunter in the backwoods of his native Florida. But like the plain, lanky Americans who hacked the nation out of the wilderness, "Vinegar Joe" had created an epic-out of sweat and weariness and malaria, of retreat and desperation and endurance. And last week what he was doing for China (see p. 37) was worth all the noble and encouraging talk in the world...
Even more disturbing in Florida were reports that confusion and mismanagement still hampered anti-submarine operations, in two instances causing a one-hour lag between the moment a U-boat was spotted and the time bombers or ships were dispatched to the scene. Meanwhile, there was no letup in the stream of haggard survivors into eastern ports, each with his tale...