Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horsemen, stranded in Florida by the sudden curtailment of Miami's racing season (TIME, Jan. 25), came tempting news last week. Mexico's National Railway offered thoroughbred owners "a sharp reduction" in shipping rates from the border to Mexico City. Reason: on the outskirts of the capital, on land owned by the Mexican Government, workmen are putting the finishing touches on a magnificent new horse park, the Hipódromo de las Américas. When it opens March 6 it will bring back to Mexico a sport that vanished with the Revolution...
Champ Champers. In Miami, Dr. Ralph Boos, delegate to the Florida East Coast Dental Society convention, announced his 1942-43 finding: the average man bites more than twice as hard as the average woman...
...Florida .404 Mississippi...
...merchant sailor training program which plans to graduate some 50,000 new merchant sailors this year. According to Curran only about 20,000 new seamen are needed. But with three to five Liberty ships coming off the ways every day, the Government is taking no chances. Besides schools in Florida and California, it has poured $14,000,000 into a new trainee school on Long Island's Sheepshead Bay which is geared to turn out some 10,000 graduates every 90 days...
...model has been built in Florida and run to Washington under its own power. But despite the enthusiasm with which various agencies have greeted this development, Yourkevitch and Woodworth have encountered inertia. No one has yet been found with the authority to order a real trial of such life, labor-and material-saving tankers...