Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the sun-made boom, Florida is the fastest growing state east of the Rocky Mountains. Items: ¶ Since 1950, its population has grown from 2,800,000 to 4,000,000, advancing the state from 20th to 14th in population...
...present rates of growth continue, Florida by 1960 will have 5,000,000 people, rank as the eighth U.S. state. Sixty percent of Floridians were born elsewhere...
...Cover) "This country," said General William Tecumseh Sherman, meaning Florida, "is not worth a damn."* Naturalist John James Audubon reported: "All that is not mud, mud, mud is sand, sand, sand." As of today, Sherman is wrong and Audubon is for the birds...
...Florida, as any poolside statistician will confirm, is worth more every minute. Its present boom, five years old and picking up speed by the month, is no crazy-house of lot options. Governor Roy Collins says: "Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture. The ultimate potential of all three has hardly been sighted, but all three must grow and thrive together, or none can survive." The common denominator of the three is the equable and reliable Florida sun, a priceless asset in a nation whose countless blessings do not, in its more populous regions, include a kindly climate...
...Whole State's Jumping." Out of the once-despised Florida mud and sand come annual crops of ever-increasing value. In the last five years, Florida frozen-orange-juice production has increased 58%, while California's has dropped 16%. Cattle raising has expanded...