Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of putting Congress on the air might appeal to many a U.S. citizen, but to most Congressmen the idea is nightmarish. Last week the nightmare threatened them: Senator Claude Pepper of Florida had introduced a joint resolution calling for Congressional debate on the national networks...
With her two children Aimee then began a long pilgrimage through the U.S. to preach her own brand of fundamental ist salvation, which she called the Four-square Gospel. On street corners and under canvas she preached, from Maine to Florida and from coast to coast. Tired of wandering at last, in 1918 she loaded her mother and her children into a broken-down jalopy and headed for Los Angeles...
Prologue. Before it hit the U.S. coast, the hurricane threatened the Bahamas and Florida, hesitated, and veered off north and east. Then, finally, it whirled in across the dunes of Cape Hatteras at 4:30 one morning, piling a tremendous surf upon the coast and filling the dawn with wind and rain. After that, hour after hour, radio stations from Delaware to Maine cried the alarm, like pygmies running ahead of a mad elephant...
September is the hurricane season, and each season produces an average of three. Usually, after traveling northwest toward Florida, hurricanes hit a high-pressure coastal front and veer seaward toward a low-pressure area south of Greenland. But last week's storm, like that in 1938, was funneled inland by the coincidence of a low-pressure front near the Great Lakes. The fiercest hurricane in U.S. history was the 1900 Galveston (Tex.) storm, which killed 6,000. The 1938 storm, still considered the most destructive on record, caused damage estimated...
Announced yesterday by the Student Council was the appointment of three undergraduates from the civilian student body to serve on the organization. The men include Frederick P. Murphy, Jr. '47, of East Norwalk, Connecticut, and Lowell House; Daniel P.S. Paul '46, of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Adams House; and Nathan Weston '47, of Cambridge, and Lowell House...