Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel, was fished out of the water. The other got his parachute fouled in a palm tree on a coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen Pope, 29, was an ex-Air Force first lieutenant, who won the D.F.C. in the Korean war, became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, flew transports over Dien-bienphu in the Indo-China...
...sick man; the attendant saw one passenger in dark clothes, and on a cot or boards, "what looked like a person covered completely with a blanket or canvas." When Murphy landed back at Tamiami, he was apparently alone. Estimated round-trip air time for that type of plane from Florida to Monte Cristi Airport on the north coast of the Dominican Republic...
...Maintain Security." By last summer the Miami yacht case was burning up the wires between Florida wing CAP headquarters and Washington. Washington appointed the deputy commander of the New York CAP, Colonel A. W. Sutter, to go to Florida to investigate. Sutter messaged ahead: "As you realize, this is a highly confidential and personal matter, and in my opinion the fewer people cognizant the less embarrassing. It is alleged that in the neighborhood of $400,000 is involved." Falling in with Sutter's theme, Washington CAP headquarters ordered the Miami CAP: "Cease all investigation. Maintain security...
Died. Benjamin Franklin White, 85, patriarch of harness racing, only four-time winner of trotting's highest honor, the Hambletonian; in Orlando, Fla. Ontario-born Ben White started wintering horses in Florida during the '205, founded Orlando's municipally owned Ben White Raceway, harness racing's winter-training capital...
NIGHT TURNPIKE TOLLS at cut rates are boosting traffic and revenues on Florida's 108-mile Sunshine State Parkway from Miami to Fort Pierce. After state slashed tolls for after-dark travel from $2.40 to $1.75 per car, income rose...