Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate...
What's a military secret these days? Is Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s vacation a military secret? Henry thinks it should be. Florida-bound, the Secretary of the Treasury asked correspondents to keep his trip dark. After two days of staring at one another with a mild surmise, newsmen squared their shoulders, got Treasury pressagents to admit that the Secretary's movements were no great military secret...
Even in midwinter, the land does not hold back its wealth. In Florida it is harvest season. Men & women in straw hats swarm over beanfields and sugar-cane plantations; trucks churn through fields to pick up oranges and grapefruit; the strawberry crop moves out by the carload; small farmers ride to town in wagons brimming with cucumbers, squash, eggplant. In Texas' Rio Grande Valley it is harvest time for grapefruit and cabbage, for tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, peppers, carrots and beets...
...boasts that he pulled it out of a $1,700,000 deficit in three years. But he also started quarreling with Bernard. When he fired his merchandise manager, a Bernard appointee, there was a great public row, and the board fired Richard. He then went into business in Florida, and is now a U.S. Army captain (aged 43) in Washington...
...Florida is raising tung trees with some success. Brazil's oiticica oil is a tung-oil substitute; the U.S. imported 16,000,000 lb. last year. The muru-muru and tucum trees, also Brazil's, are palm substitutes. Venezuela's jungle-grown corozo and macanilla nuts have the quick-lathering qualities of coconut oil. So has the babassu, of which the U.S. imported 63,000,000 Ib. last year, mostly for soap. In fact, of all imported oils still available to the U.S., Brazil's babassu is now the most important for soap-even in Kansas...