Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest atrocity from behind the Grits and Gravy Curtain moves me to suggest that Mississippi, Georgia and Unoccupied Florida secede from the Union forthwith, all white Deep Southerners to receive free passage to another Union more in line with their philosophy-that of South Africa. To fill this welcome vacuum, let us then admit Hawaii and Alaska to statehood. I am sure that they would contribute more to the glory of the U.S. than treacly novels, Neanderthal politicians and made-to-measure propaganda for the Soviet Union...
...Playing one of their rare night games, in sultry 80° Florida weather, Notre Dame blanked Miami University 14-0. Irish Quarterback Paul Hornung, a running star in earlier games this season, turned on his passing skill, firing the forwards that scored both Notre Dame touchdowns...
Ford hopes that the new Continental will become as famed as the original, which was first styled by Edsel Ford and custom-built as a personal car. On a trip to Florida Edsel got so many requests for a car like his that he put the Continental into production in 1940. Though Ford collected dividends in prestige for the 5,322 Continentals it built, it lost money on every car. When the company skidded into the red after World War II, it stopped making them. Three years ago, after Ford moved solidly back in the black, Benson Ford proposed that...
...bypassed Florida and headed for North Carolina. By this time, the red-and black hurricane pennants were flying from Hatteras to Cape Cod. Big ships scurried out to sea; small boats were hauled ashore...
...FLORIDA: Grade D. State law prohibits the mixing of races in schools, but on three bases of the U.S. Air Force, white and Negro pupils will integrate this fall. Negro parents have filed petitions for integration in four counties...