Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Bella Chagall, 48, wife and only model of Russian-born, Paris-loving Artist Marc Chagall, now painting his bucolic, sentimental fantasies in U.S. exile; of diabetes; at Tupper Lake...
Thanks to the recklessness of sportsmen pilots, the Grumman plane repair shop did a brisk business even in 1930. The partners bought one plane which had dived into a lake until only its tail was visible, for $450. They fixed it up and sold it for $20,000. They also made aluminum trailers, and finally landed their first Navy contract for two amphibian floats...
Albert Einstein, vacationing at Saranac Lake, N.Y., went sailing with several friends in an 18-ft. boat, capsized in choppy water, had to be rescued by motorboat...
Major Richard Ira Bong, who shot down 27 Jap planes in the Southwest Pacific, passed through Salt Lake City on a commercial airliner, complained that he could not sleep. Reason: he was airsick...
G.I.s returning from overseas duty began arriving at 35 hotels in Miami Beach, three others in Santa Barbara, Calif. Within a fortnight, others in Asheville, N.C., Lake Placid, N.Y. and Hot Springs, Ark. will be opened. (Total capacity: 17,-ooo-less than 1% of Army Ground Force and Service Force troops now overseas...