Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking straight at Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers, Humphrey said that Smathers' "compromise" plan to schedule the tax cut tentatively for July 1, 1956 was "strictly a phony" device to offer the voter an election-year plum that might later be snatched away. Said the Secretary of the Treasury: "This Administration advocates further tax cuts, but only at such time as we can see them justified by further cuts in spending and increased revenues from economic growth that broadens the tax base...
...will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...
...neon-lighted palace, where private baths and comfortable beds are as standard as doorknobs. Though the average occupancy rate is still about 70% (about the same for hotels), such a prime vacation place as Las Vegas, Nev. has between 250 to 300 competing motels. Southern California alone has 650; Florida has 4,500, and its motel operators thought the state had all that it could stand 18 months ago. But new motels are still abuilding from Jacksonville to Key West...
MILK-PRICE CONTROLS by the states are weakening under pressure from the consumers. Florida's Milk Commission, whose pegged prices are among the highest in the U.S., has just opened the way for more competition by voting to allow retailers up to 15% cuts in their minimum prices...
FROZEN ORANGE-JUICE prices will go up because of the recent cold snap in Florida and pessimism about next year's crop. Two big producers, Birds Eye and Libby, McNeill & Libby, have just boosted wholesale prices 5? per dozen six-oz. cans, and the rest of the industry may follow suit. Retailers are expected to pass on the increase...