Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas-probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place-silencing the Government wireless. At Panacea, Fla. five fishermen were drowned when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
Last week, while planes dropped flares in Manhattan's North River, parachutists attacked Long Island's Floyd Bennett Field, and mock invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise...
...freighter, spent several years decorating wax candles and painting posters in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In the '20s he moved to Atlanta, met and married a girl from Rome (Ga.), started painting murals. When Tobacco Millionaire Dick Reynolds hired him to decorate a mansion on Sapelo Island, Ga., Painter Menaboni did a series of murals in which some of Reynolds' best friends appeared with the bodies of jungle animals. Sapelo Island was full of birds, and Menaboni started to paint them...
...M.P.s of 1941 are more enlightened. For the past ten months at Fort Jay on New York's Governors Island, 700 regulars, 450 draftees have been diligently trained for service in the first battalion (518th) of Military Police to be organized since the last...
...them, not even Dr. Flexner, his favorite. For years no one dared call him Popsy to his face. Yet he did not act like a lonely, reserved bachelor -he was always dapper, always nimble on his little feet, always ready for fun. He loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball fan, he astonished musicians and sports experts with his lore...