Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Joseph E. Davies & wife Marjorie (Post Close Hutton) took the long voyage home to Long Island. From Alexandria, Va. they went by yacht...
...choice for his job, created to root out postwar racing's "undesirable elements." The T.R.A. offered the post first to J. Edgar Hoover, followed his advice when he recommended his onetime assistant, laconic, cigar-smoking Spencer Drayton, who had helped capture the Nazi saboteurs who landed on Long Island in June, 1942. Drayton has hired practically no one but ex-FBI men as investigators. Their chief trouble so far: baseless "tips" from people who have bet on the wrong horse. Even so, Drayton thinks his job is valuable. Says he: "My presence deters crime...
Camp Upton, Long Island, New York, previously declared surplus by the War Department, has been selected as site of the laboratory, and installation of facilities costing more than five million dollars is under way there...
...total amount of property thus far declared surplus had an original value of $6,163,637,000. It was scattered over more than 80 countries and on 30 island groups. Much was battle-worn and deteriorated. Some was once thought nonsalable. Yet FLC had disposed of three-fifths of the amount on hand-for $1,009,000,000 (including $98,000,00 worth transferred to UNRRA...
Rhubarb, which comes from Jackson Heights, Long Island, falls heir to a fortune left by a Manhattan hair-oil magnate. By virtue of the same will, it also becomes owner of a big-league baseball club known as the New York Loons. It is natural enough for such a cat to be: 1) a guest expert on a radio quiz program (so that Smith can have some fun with Information Please); 2) play host at a literary cocktail party (with much kidding of a large lady who is presumably Elsa Maxwell); 3) pose for a TIME cover (still...