Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breezy, New Dealing Democrat (but no darling of the party's congressional rank and file), was the first woman to serve on the FCC, was often a center of controversy in her seven years in office. Floridian Mack, a Democrat of calmer persuasion, is former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a current vice president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, and an experienced practitioner before...
...intend really to rest. On the Kona coast 200 miles southeast of Waikiki, Kaiser plans to spend $40 million for hotels, a yacht basin, hillside homes, fishing boats. Said he: "There's a need for more vacation facilities-a human need. When I was 22 I decided Florida would never develop a tourist business and passed up a chance to be in on the ground floor there. Then I went on to figure that Palm Springs and Las Vegas were desert sand traps and always would be. I don't want to miss the boat again...
This time the creature is chasing an eye-filling blonde (Lori Nelson) over and under the inland waterways of Florida...
Burly ex-Coast Guardsman Russell Tongay, 39. was hustled from Miami to the Florida state pen to start a ten-year manslaughter stretch. His unsavory crime: causing the death of his daughter. "Aqua-tot" Kathy Tongay, 5, who died in convulsions soon after Aquapop Tongay made her leap from a 33-ft. diving tower into a Miami Beach pool...
...FLORIDA TURNPIKE stretching almost the full length of the state, from Miami 390 miles north to a point near Jacksonville, has been authorized by the state legislature. To be financed by revenue bonds paid off by tolls, the new super-road will cost $281 million. Work on the first 103-mile section north from Miami is scheduled to get under way this year. Completion date for the entire road...