Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill happy members rolled out the pork barrel, singing a song of defense. The House Rivers & Harbors Committee, traditional Congressional gravy boat (composed of members who never let their right hands know what their lefts are doing), last week dusted off the defunct old $150,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, named it a defense project, urged an authorization. Other measures were...
...have lost valuable time bucking the railroads, who lobby against pipelines just as resolutely as they used to wreck them in the oil wars of the '80s. Their most successful lobby is in Georgia. Pure Oil and Gulf, trying to run a line from Port St. Joe in Florida to Chattanooga, laid pipe on much of the route, but could not get permission to close the gaps across the railroads' rights...
...Army Transport Service last week announced its largest induction to date: the 24,289-ton liner Manhattan, chartered (for $2,000 a day plus $300 war-risk insurance) from U.S. Lines. Brooklyn shipyard workers are repairing her bottom (injured by the Florida sand bar on which she ran aground in January), installing extra bunks for troops, preparing her for her first Army voyage on June 18-through the Panama Canal to Hawaii with soldiers and materiel...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who has been a stalking horse for the Administration before, was the most vociferous. He called for convoying "without another day's delay or dallying." Shouting down all attempts of other Senators to interrupt him, he cried: "Do we want to let millions be crucified later because there is a jeopardy that a few might die an honorable death now?" The U.S., Pepper stormed, should get tough, "occupy the points of vantage from which these monsters are preparing to strike at us ... Greenland, Iceland, the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands...
Whatever is remembered of the '44 Smoker, organization, efficiency and successful fiscal finagling are sure to be prominent. But no more so than Sally's observations about Florida, the weather, and--will...