Word: apalachicola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often builds a brag on its murderous humidity. Amarillo, Texas, brags about its yellow dust. Nashville has a swelled head over the racket, only occasionally musical, that it produces; Memphis lauds itself about the special quiet it has enjoyed ever since the late Boss Ed Crump banned auto horns. Apalachicola, Fla.? The oyster is its world. Hope, Ark.? The watermelon is its. If some places-Podunk, Peoria and Kalamazoo as well as New Jersey -take unexpected pride in being the classic butt of vaudeville jokes, others seem to get a chauvinistic glow from the fact that they resemble a distant...
...controlling interest in St. Joe Paper Co., which Ball founded and expanded until today it is practically a private holding company itself. St. Joe controls a score of paper mills and boxmaking plants in the U.S., Britain and Ireland, two profitable railroads, the Florida East Coast and the Apalachicola Northern, and owns 23% of Charter Co., a Jacksonville-based conglomerate that is in myriad undertakings from gasoline refining to planning a model city for the Shah of Iran. In building the estate, Ball also made a string of profitable investments for himself. His personal wealth is about $50 million much...