Word: gal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juice by Sea. Sale of fresh Florida orange juice in Northern states will get a boost from Fruit Industries Inc., which has solved the high cost of refrigerated land transport with S.S. Tropicana, a vacuum-sealed stainless-steel tanker. The ship can carry 1,500,000 gal. (the juice of 70 million oranges) on a 56-hour run from Cocoa, Fla. to Long Island, where the juice is put in cartons for sale in twelve states and Canada. Company spends only $15,000 per tanker trip v. $265,000 if the juice came by land...
Facts poured in fast last week as U.S. authorities dug deep into the suspiciously linked disappearances of Columbia University Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez and a U.S. airplane pilot named Gerald Lester Murphy (TIME, Feb. 11). The evidence indicated that Galíndez had been kidnaped and then flown out of the U.S. to the Dominican Republic in a plane piloted by Gerry Murphy, an airplane-happy youth of 23, who then vanished. In an investigation paralleling the FBI's, LIFE this week unearthed elaborate details of how the deed was done...
...took off from Newark Airport, announcing his destination as Miami. But at 10:30 a.m. he landed at Zahns Airport in Amityville, L.I. That night, Murphy said later, a "cancer patient" was transferred from an ambulance to the plane. It was the same night that Galíndez vanished. Early the next morning N 68100 put down in Florida at the Lantana airport for refueling, then buzzed straight for Monte Cristi on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic...
Shark-Infested Explanation. After drinks, Murphy sometimes boasted that his passenger-patient was Galíndez. On Dec. 3, after he had quit his job and was packing to return to the U.S., he disappeared. Neither he nor Galíndez has since turned...
...presumed reason for Galíndez' kidnaping: he had written a doctoral thesis condemning Trujillo, for whom he had once worked...