Word: florida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution appropriating $1,290,000 for the Florida fruit-fly fight...
Pests. "In April the Mediterranean fruit fly . . . worst fruit pest known, was found well established in central Florida. . . . Control operations involved 8,100,000 acres, producing 76% of [Florida's] citrus fruits . . . 580,000 boxes of citrus fruit, 3,400 bushels of vegetables, 7,100 bushels of non-citrus fruit were destroyed. In 1930 $15,500,000 will be needed for quarantine enforcement, inspection, research . . . the object is eradication...
Eight out of eleven Oregonians took off their jerseys, played with their bare arms sticking out of their pads. They got one touchdown on a Florida pass but Quarterback Crabtree of Florida, used to warm weather, trickled 81 yards through them, and Ed Sauls and Red McEwen made two more. Florida 20, Oregon...
Penney Dairy. Pig-raising was the first, Penney Stores the most profitable, of the business ventures of James Cash Penney. Famed as a livestock breeder, Mr. Penney includes as diversion large scale, scientific farming. Biggest of his farming projects is Foremost Dairy Products, Inc., organized last March, operating in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia. Last week the Penney herds expanded westward when Foremost merged with Southwest Dairy Products Co., which serves 120,000 square miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Annual sales volume of the new company will exceed...
Cawthon and Steele were eventually poison to a nervy South Carolina team that lacked a line. Florida 20, South Carolina...