Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaches wronged by TIME'S remark, sincere apologies. Florida's beaches have apparently suffered most...
...Political writer, Sacramento (Cal.) Union; James M. Daniel 3rd, Reporter, Washington Daily News; John F. Day, Jr., Filing Editor, Associated Press, Huntington, West Virginia; Edward J. Donohoe, Reporter, Scranton Times; Robert C. Elliott, Editor, War News, San Francisco News; James P. Etheridge, Jr., Editorial writer, Tampa Daily Times, Tampa Florida; Thomas H. Griffith, Jr., Assistant City Editor, Seattle Times; Ernest M. Hill, Political writer and state capital reporter, United Press, Oklahoma City; Frank K. Kelly, Rewrite, city desk, Associated Press, New York; Erwin W. Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave...
...imports (mostly Cuba and Hawaii) have totaled 1,200,000 tons. Domestic cane and beet output runs over 2,000,000 tons a year. Each week, even now, from 60-70,000 tons are imported. Besides, Cuba is nervously holding 3,000,000-plus tons only 200 miles from Florida and the waiting railroads; Puerto Rico has up to 1,000,000 tons more. Normal U.S. consumption, meantime, runs only 6,800,000 tons annually, v. only 5,500,000 tons allowed under present sugar rationing...
...Brehon Somervell the New Deal provided new opportunities, as it did for many an engineer. As executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates...
...prices to boot. Another trouble is the shipping shortage, which makes it hard to import anything on which to spend the island's new wealth. The 2,500,000-plus tons of sugar now piled high in Cuba for lack of ships to carry it 200 miles to Florida are a sign in reverse of the difficulty of getting U.S. goods to Cuba. Unable to spend much cash offshore, Cuba is doing a good job of putting her own business and Government finances in tiptop shape. The Government has paid...