Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOUTHERN SCHOOL BONDS are going begging. Reason: threats to get around segregation by abolishing the public-school systems have tarnished the traditionally gilt-edged credit of school bonds. After New York syndicates demanded Florida pay 3.11% interest on $10,585,000 of school bonds (v. the previous high of 2.69%), Florida withdrew the offer...
...Manila rope, built a 120-ft. tree house in the jungle to get above the trees and came back with 4,000 negatives. (LIFE used 29.) ¶ Photographer Margaret Bourke-White dangled from a cable dropped from a helicopter for aerial views of the U.S. ¶ In a Florida lagoon. Photographer Hank Walker mounted a camera on a sunken ship, connected it to shore by 4,000 ft. of cable so that he could shoot a jet plane coming head-on to a target with its rockets blazing. A direct hit smashed the camera, but left the film magazine intact...
...most recent action proving her words is the purchase of Palm Springs' $2,000,000 Desert Inn (TIME, July 25). She believes that "Palm Springs is growing like Florida grew, is ripe for ... development," expects to build "a miniature Rockefeller Center" around the inn that will include small department stores, a theater, possibly a nightclub...
...courts. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, courts last week ruled in favor of fair trade (on cases involving General Electric and Bulova Watch Co.), thus making six (others: California, New Jersey, New York, Delaware) that have upheld the constitutionality of the 1952 McGuire Act. Five other state supreme courts (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska), plus some lower courts, have ruled against fair trade...
...system will not bring power into every corner of Greece's 50,000 square miles, an area about the size of Florida. But last week one of the first acts of the Greek Public Power Corp. was to ask Breckenridge and some of the 66 U.S. technicians on his staff to stay on a while longer, supervise the building of two more plants that will add another 150,000 kw. to the system in the next three years...