Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South will string along with the New Deal. That was the news last week from the Alabama and Florida primaries. The victorious New Dealers had bad scares. They had to fight fiercely and draw heavily on their established personal strength. They won by narrower margins than they enjoyed six years ago. But political observers, pondering the returns, agreed that...
...Boom-conscious Florida has been searching for oil since 1901, and its Legislature has a standing offer of a $50,000 prize for the first commercial well. No one has collected yet, but Jersey Standard's big Texas subsidiary, Humble Oil, has struck oil at 11,626 ft. at an Atlantic Coast Line R.R. tank stop 28 miles north of Everglades City, and is hopefully drilling two more tests. Florida's county weeklies are having a field day announcing new leases, with the price for once near-worthless land up 150% from a year...
...southern Georgia only a half-dozen wells have been drilled, but 8,000,000 acres are already under lease, mostly to big companies like Humble, which have already spent more than $2,000,000 for test drillings. In the little turpentine town of Waycross, near the Florida line, oilmen are so thick that the Chamber of Commerce has taken over the whole second floor of the Ware Hotel to accommodate them-and its own Oil and Gas Committee...
...peace which few U.S. Congressmen command. He jumped into World War I as a fighter-pilot of the famed "Yale Unit."* He has roamed China; he watched the Washington Naval Limitations Conference of 1921-22 as assistant secretary of the American delegation, piloted a patrol plane off the Florida coast in the summer...
Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., slightly wounded at Palermo and returned to the U.S. from far-ranging destroyer duty, took command of a patrol vessel after making "a very creditable record" at a subchaser training school in Florida...