Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida Flush...
About Legislator P. Guy Crews's bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida if they have flush toilets [TIME, May 26]. Why do you say "None...
...were killed in a take-off accident that ended in flaming death in a United Airlines DC-4 for all but six of its occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
...hold a number twelve ranking in National Junior competition before the war, and travelled to Florida last winter to participate in the Sugar Bowl tournament. In 1942 he reached the quarter finals of this tournament before bowing to Billy Talbert in extra sets...
...Tallahassee, paunchy, gag-loving Legislator P. Guy Crews introduced a bill to prohibit airplanes from flying over Florida-if they had flush toilets.* &3182;The American Automobile Association, perturbed by the regularity with which pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...