Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rejoices over Southland Oil Co.'s plans for Florida's first complete oil-cracking plant. Jacksonville has two new insurance company skyscrapers, a new $2,500.000 branch of General Motors' Electro-Motive Division and a General Foods instant-coffee plant...
...come from Florida. Good farm land is expanding, notably in the swamps and jungle of the Everglades, where a $250 million drainage and reclamation project is uncovering black muck soil as fertile as anything on earth...
...Florida mines ilmenite and rutile...
...Florida, centering 70 miles east of St. Petersburg, there is enough phosphate to last U.S. industry 1,000 years...
...mostly in the north, elect 20 of the 38 ,state senators. Collins was criticized for not "forcing" the legislators to go along by using his patronage power and his right to veto bills for local improvements. Instead, he continues to preach reapportionment as a necessity of tomorrow's Florida. Says Collins: "It takes a gradual shaping of public opinion to win the really big fights." Although he has not publicly said so. he would like another term. The state Supreme Court will have to rule on his eligibility to succeed himself. (The issue: Will his two years count...