Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew prize filberts, and developed the famous Imperial, biggest of prunes. Oregon sent him to the Senate first in World War I. Oregon still was returning him proudly a quarter-century later, in World War II. Last November, he had a brain operation. After that, he lived on the Florida seashore at Fort Lauderdale, cheerfully awaiting...
...bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...
They had seen sections that looked like a Florida country club, winding gravel roads, fine homes. They had encountered terrific ack-ack. One "layout" was covered with "strips, taxiways, and ships." But most important, they had counted 25 ships, among them two carriers. They had pictures to prove...
...Florida Peach. Nothing in Frances Langford's 29 years prepared her for her sweetheart role. Daughter of a Lakeland, Fla., building contractor and a concert pianist, she wanted to be an opera singer but not enough − the formalities bored...
...Higgins to build a boat that would carry tanks into water shallow enough for them to roll ashore. He tried an amphibious tractor ("alligator") that Donald Roebling had invented for rescue use in the Florida Everglades. For two years the aluminum cleats always came off the alligator. But it was the forerunner of today's amphibious tank...