Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kangaroos, chimpanzees or jumping frogs. Certainly a dog track is no place to admire the look of a dog: his face is wrapped in a muzzle that looks something like an air-raid warden's mask. But dog racing is an $81 million-a-year business in Florida...
...flew over to the Florida mainland for the dedication of the Everglades as the U.S.'s 28th (and eleventh largest) national park. At the tiny (pop. 600) fishing town of Everglades City, he was welcomed by an enthusiastic, pushing crowd of 4,500. A group of Seminole Indians presented him with a rainbow-colored shirt, and a buckskin bag to take to Bess. He stopped to chat with some sponge fishermen, got two sponges as souvenirs...
...ceremony, Florida's Governor Millard F. Caldwell formally turned over to the U.S. Government 270,720 acres of the Everglades' sawgrass flats, jungly hummocks, winding waterways and mangrove swamps. Harry Truman beamed, spoke pleasantly about "the wise use of our natural resources...
...Governor Harold Stassen reported on results of a six-state speaking tour from Colorado through the South to Florida (most of which is usually considered Taft territory). So far, he calculated hopefully, he had picked up 54 convention votes out of a possible 114. His claimed first-ballot total...
Equally drastic was the Government's restriction of travel by Canadian citizens in the U.S.-just when northern snows make many Canadians yearn for Florida sun. Henceforth a Canadian may spend no more than $150 a year on trips...