Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight, sitting under the Florida sun, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had found plenty of time to rest and think. Back in Washington to confer with Anthony Eden (see p. 9), he expressed one of the opinions he had reached: the war would last longer, according to all reasonable calculations, than most citizens now believed...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who loves the New Deal, took the easy out: he called the report "nothing short of magnificent." Mississippi's Congressman John Rankin, who hates the New Deal, called it "the most fantastic conglomeration of bureaucratic stupidity ever sent to Congress." Neither could have read through it at the time they commented...
...potatoes, but there was, at the moment, a shortage: 1) half the Florida crop froze last fortnight; 2) the Army took over half the Idaho crop and big fractions of Oregon's, Nebraska's and Maine's; 3) Maine shippers were short of refrigerator cars; 4) OPA's ceilings, as usual, did not apply to growers. And many growers held out for prices too high to give wholesalers any margin at all. As a result of these factors, the public took to sporadic-and senseless-hoarding...
...confident, confidential voice which seems to know all the answers last week won what may in time become the toploftiest prize in radio. The prize: a $1,000 Pulitzer-style award established last year by Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont and the Florida National Group of Banking Institutions for the year's best radio commentator. The winner: Mutual's Fulton Lewis Jr. He also got a solemn salute from the committee* which chose him: "In recognition and appreciation of his initiative in the aggressive, independent and meritorious gathering, interpretation and presentation of news through the medium of radio...
...occasion of Julius Klorfein's purchase was not unpremeditated. A perceptive young woman named Edna Skinner, actress, radio commentator, fashion model, now a member of the A.W.V.S., heard that Mr. Klorfein had bought $500,000 worth of war bonds recently during a trip to Florida. She thought it would be fine if he could double that in Gimbels' Bargain Basement. Julius Klorfein agreed...