Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Political writer, Sacramento (Cal.) Union; James M. Daniel 3rd, Reporter, Washington Daily News; John F. Day, Jr., Filling Editor, Associated Press, Huntington, West Virginia; Edward J. Donohoe, Reporter, Seraton 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; Erhest M. Hill, Political writer and state capitol 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...
...Manuel Avila Camacho asked and won approval of a declaration that a state of war has existed since May 22, the expiration date of a Foreign Office protest demanding "complete satisfaction" and a guarantee of reparations for the sinking of the Mexican freighter Potrero del Llano, torpedoed off the Florida coast. The Chamber of Deputies approved, 183-to-0, the Senate 53-to-0 (with five members absent...
...below last year. At a New York City Police Department "lost-strayed-or-stolen" auction, 1,500 bidders bypassed 155 second-hand cars (except as junk), bid up to $37 for second-hand bicycles. In the Carolinas, new and used-car sales were off 50%; in Florida, many a disgusted dealer got ready to quit; in Maine, there were more sellers than buyers. Even in the gasoline-rich West and Midwest, rumors of rationing slowed sales down...
Stop-gap arrangements were being hurried. The White House approved the building of wooden barges to carry crude oil on inland waterways from Florida. A House committee approved a bill for a pipeline from Florida's west coast to Jacksonville, another for improvement of a Florida barge canal. Harold Ickes announced that a beginning had been made on relocation of two existing pipelines, which would send an additional 25,000 barrels daily to the East by July 15. But real relief would be a major transportation operation-and that...
...laboratory-born resins, chief constituent of the new plastic glues, set like concrete, are impervious to weather or bacterial attack. A piece of plastic plywood stuck into the muck of Florida's everglades by the Department of Agriculture was pulled out two years later in perfect condition...