Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebellion. Even the most liberal of Southern Democrats could no longer buck the bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates to the party's July convention...
Over Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach on Florida's east coast, a stiff wind was blowing. It rattled the palm trees with a sound like distant machine guns, piled huge stacks of cumulus clouds in front of the sun. From the sea, a salty film of spindrift swept over the cluster of snug beach houses. In one of them last week, sitting intently by his radio, Under Secretary of State Robert Abercrombie Lovett listened to the President's undramatic announcement of a dramatic new turn in U.S. foreign policy...
...Axelrod's letters begin "You're the kind of guy I want to work for," and are from experienced weavers, loom-fixers, fashion designers, buyers, superintendents, salesmen, workers from nearby mills, from all over New England, and from Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Delaware, New York, California, Florida, Georgia and Alabama. Others are from novices who want to enroll in Axelrod's school in textile technique...
...schools were holding back. They nervously noted that it was costing the University of Michigan $12 million to finish structures estimated at $8,000,000 when they were started. Observed the cautious treasurer of Florida's little Rollins College: "Private or endowed institutions which resist the temptation to expand [may look] unprogressive now, but in a few years they may be pointed to as 'Pillars of wisdom...
Engene Holman was frank enough to admit last year that the United States had no cause to fear an oil shortage for quite a while. Vast new fields are now being opened up in Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, etc, which make the East Texas fields look like kiddy-stuff. We are also finding better ways of getting oil out of sand and other untapped sources...