Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-three members of the squad declared themselves "definitely interested" in the Florida trip yesterday as manager William C. B. Young '55 announced that the Bermuda venture was "positively...
...Florida may replace Bermuda as the varsity lacrosse team's Christmas holiday destination, Coach Bruce Munro has announced...
...insured the vitamin-hungry citizens of America oranges and grapefruit ripe and redolent with succulent, salubrious, satisfying juice. Governor McCarty continued this program. The Warren administration sponsored legislation outlawing highway cows and hogs [and] slightly reduced the cruel carnage of colliding cars . . . Illegal gambling had been openly operated in Florida for more than 50 years before 1949. The Warren administration suppressed all open, illegal gambling . . . and markedly reduced sneak gambling . . . TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby." This is a vertical variance from veracity . . . Lobbyists...
...Cinerama or some new system? Most of the theater owners thought that no one system will dominate the field, but that theaters will be equipped to handle a variety of projection methods depending on the film. Harvey Fleischman, district manager of the Wometco theater chain (32 theaters) in southern Florida and the Bahamas, summed up: "Cinerama, because of the size of its equipment, is impractical for most theaters. It will be confined to special productions in certain big houses. CinemaScope is impractical for some small theaters, fine for the larger houses. Three-dimensional films are finished as a novelty...
...first to go into volume production for the retail market two years later. Today, Sunkist's processing business nets more than $36 million a year from juices and frozen concentrates. Even the waste is used to make such citrus byproducts as citrus pectins, citric acid and lemon oils. Florida grows more oranges, but California and Arizona have the lemon business practically to themselves. Sunkist grows 82% of the nation's total, is converting poorer-grade orange orchards to lemons by grafting lemon branches on full-grown orange trees. Though oranges are still the biggest part...