Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the end of 1942, seven other blimp squadrons will take to the air. On the East Coast they will be based at Lakehurst, South Weymouth, Mass., Elizabeth City, N.C., and at a spot still undesignated in Florida; on the West Coast, at California's Moffett Field, near Sunnyvale...
...Manhattan, CBS's earnest young President William S. Paley assumed the worst. The suit, he said, was "evidently an outgrowth of the persistent attempt by FCC to tear apart the present system of network broadcasting in favor of its own impractical theories." In Florida, vacationing Niles Trammell, NBC president, merely said he was "at a loss to understand" why the suit was brought...
Last week Tropical opened with unprecedented fanfare. The Whitneys, the Wideners, the Woodwards and even Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly (Brenda Frazier) rubbed elbows with the turf's tinhorn sports. Reason: Florida's "friendly track" was recently purchased by a group of polo-playing, hunt-club socialites headed by Baltimorean Henry L. Straus. M.F.H., and the millionaire Munns (Gurnee and Charles Alexander) of Washington, Palm Beach and Paris...
Last fall, after they bought out Tropical's controlling stockholders (including onetime Capone Henchman John Patton, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and underworldly Owney Madden, who had suddenly been branded "undesirable" by the Florida State 'Racing Commission), Mr. Straus and the Munns had misgivings over the soundness of their venture. The Florida Legislature, seeking to raise $2,000,000 for old-age pensions, voted to increase its 1942 pari-mutuel "take" from 3% to 8%. The track's share remained...
That meant that out of every dollar wagered at Florida race tracks 15? (instead of 10?) would be taken out of the pool before dividing it among the winning betters. How horse players would react to this record levy caused Tropical's new owners some discomfort. Then came war to make matters worse...