Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, United's plant will make only anhydrous ammonia, the new chemical fertilizer that increases crop yields up to 300%. But a 40-man task force of National scientists has been at work for four years developing several new cracking processes that will eventually put United's Florida plant to work making other petrochemicals from natural...
Republicans did amazingly well in the Solid South. They held on to their only seat in North Carolina, retained two of their three places in Virginia, and upset Democrats in Texas and Florida. For the region as a whole, therefore, the G.O.P. showed a net gain of one seat...
Among the more surprising House contests were two in Florida and Texas, where Republican Congressmen were elected in traditionally Democratic districts. Also unexpected was the result in the First District of Utah, where Republican Henry Dixon, after only two weeks of campaigning, won the Congressional seat recently vacated by the discredited hero Douglas Stringfellow...
Answer to a Prayer. A few months later Billy was ordained a minister by the St. Johns Baptist Association of Northern Florida. He went on to preach "at every cowpath and wagon track in Florida." gained a strong voice, expanded confidence and got a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago. There he collected an A.B. in anthropology, an unusual major for a man who still rejects the theory of evolution...
...fight for control of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Florida Financier Louis E. Wolfson and friends have been buying stock in the $1 billion-a-year store chain and mail-order firm at a fast pace (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Wolfson arrived in Chicago to set up a proxy-soliciting office right under the nose of crotchety old Board Chairman Sewell Avery, and announced that he and his associates now own more than 500,000 shares (8% of the stock outstanding...