Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially when it catches fire. There were stones last week of intolerable exposure, of hunger and thirst in lifeboats, of burned, screaming men, of heroic attempts to save crazed, suffering men from leaping to their death. When two tankers were attacked and burned off New Jersey and Florida, there were only three survivors from crews of 79. At week's end the Axis U-boat campaign in U.S. coastal waters had destroyed at least 27 ships, of which 17 were tankers...
...perfect pearl, formed not in an oyster but in a coconut, was exhibited last week in Florida by Botanist David Fairchild. One of a dozen found in 9,000,000 East Indian coconuts, the pearl began (scientists believe) when a sprout was unable to force its way through one of the three pores in a germinating nut. Like a sand grain in an oyster, the sprout was then encrusted with layers of calcium carbonate-even though chemists have never found this compound in either the nut's milk or kernel...
...left much of his estate to the University, it was revealed by the United Press yesterday, after his will was filed in probate court. Included in the request are sets of apparatus that he used when he was teaching here, and a valuable art collection. Professor Michael died in Florida on February...
...While the Army takes no formal notice of a college education in awarding commissions," he explained, "they usually find in college students the ability and the initiative they want. For example, in Fort Benning, Florida, the training camp for infantry officers, at least three-forths of the successful candidates have been to college...
...American Wolf, a 17-to-1 shot: the Bahamas Handicap, first noteworthy horse race of the Florida season; before a crowd of 16,000; at Miami's Hialeah Park. Among the also-rans was Alsab, wonder horse of 1941, who was making his debut as a three-year-old. Alsab was assigned top weight of 128 Ib. (14 more than American Wolf), went to the post odds-on favorite, finished sixth in the field...