Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Married in 1950, they reared five children. Robert Kirsch, now 66, of North Huntingdon, Pa., was a radioman en route to his B-17 squadron in Foggia, Italy. He wrote seven of the undelivered letters, two of which were to his parents, who are living in Florida. As he picked up his missives last week, he observed dryly, "If I had known that this was going to happen, I would have written more letters...
...Margarita in 1960 in the Treasure Hunter's Guide, which included references to the two ships sinking off the "Keys of Matecumbe" in a 1622 hurricane. Several years later Fisher met Eugene Lyon, who was beginning research for a doctoral dissertation on the history of the Spanish conquest of Florida. Lyon was about to leave for Seville to study Spanish archives, and Fisher enlisted his aid in the search for the galleons. The researcher eventually wrote from Spain that he had good evidence Matecumbe was a general term for the Florida Keys. He suggested that the treasure lay off what...
...cargo was scattered over nine linear miles, it took Fisher until 1985--and a total of 6,500 magnetometer hits--to identify what he calls the "mother lode," the ; main body of the ship's cargo. Even then, retrieving the treasure was difficult. The deeper waters off the Florida Keys are murky, the bottom heavily silted. Again, technology provided the solution. Several years earlier, Feild had devised a huge pair of fittings that resemble and are called mailboxes, and placed them over the propellers of one of Fisher's tugs, in effect directing the ship's backwash straight down...
...stick with morning publication rather than go head to head in the afternoon with the Times. Then the News immediately expanded to 48 pages. "We decided we had to match the news hole of the Times," says McClatchy, 59. As publisher, McClatchy plucked brash Jerry Grilly from Florida, where he was running a chain of weeklies. "It was like someone offered me a job on the moon," recalls Grilly, now 39. The moon might have been cozier. When Grilly arrived in Anchorage, the Times controlled 85% of the advertising dollars. "It was tough getting people to return my calls, much...
...service's programming had been interrupted briefly with a pattern of color bars. It was apparently the work of the same person; thus it seemed the culprit had access to the facility at the same time on both nights. Another important tip came from an accountant vacationing in Florida who had overheard a revealing conversation about Captain Midnight at a pay phone. He took down the caller's license-plate number and gave it to the authorities. The auto was linked to MacDougall...