Word: florida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased with themselves last week were officials of two Florida fruit cooperatives. Theirs was the distinction of receiving from the Federal Farm Board the first allotment from its $150,000,000 loan fund. To Florida United Growers and Florida Citrus Growers Exchange the Board advanced...
This loan was obtained to equip Florida fruit shipping warehouses with apparatus for destroying the Mediterranean fruit fly on outgoing produce. By this method fruit is first heated above 100°, then suddenly cooled to just above freezing where it is held long enough to insure the demise of Halterophera Capitata larvae...
Floridians last week insisted that the extermination of this pest was virtually complete, that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde should consider relaxing the federal quarantine. They accused their citrus-competitor, California, of exaggerating the fruit fly's destruction in Florida, of spreading false stories of fruit trees cut down, orchards obliterated...
...years ago Rumrunner James Horace Alderman killed two coast guardsmen in Florida. Last week President HooVer was asked to commute Alderman's death sentence to life imprisonment. This he declined...
...progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...