Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Hemingway, whose first marriage lasted nearly six years, his second thirteen, filed suit for a Havana divorce after a five-year stretch with Writer (The Trouble I've Seen) Martha Gellhorn...
...Last week a Jacksonville barge-line opera tor decided it could be done. Young, energetic Harold Gray Williams, 37, had the blueprints drawn and the cash in hand ($2,000,000) needed to build a super de luxe ferry for the 90 nautical-mile trip from Key West to Havana. It will carry 300 autos and 900 passengers. When the first ferry goes into service, probably some time next summer, U.S. autoists can cross the Straits of Florida in six hours, and at a tentative cost of only...
...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...
Love in Wartime. In Havana, Ill., the Rev. James L. Dial took pity on a point-short couple he had just married, lent them three pounds of sugar for their wedding cake. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board heard from an applicant, "I'm getting married, so I need a new pair of work shoes," considerately marked his request "Urgent...
...this cold water and warm surface water to power a turbine. One day his apparatus generated enough power to light 40 500-candlepower bulbs - about 30 horse power (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). When an unknown species of fish was sucked into the tube and retrieved at the surface, the Havana Academy of Science named it for him: Benthocometes-Claude...