Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren administration inaugurated an industrial development program that caused the tropical paradise called Florida to become a figurative beehive of light manufacturing . . . [It] sponsored a tourist promotion program that brought vast multitudes of new tourists to the lush, lovely, florescent state...
...tests cover everything from trape-zoids to Tom Paine, from spelling (acqui-esence, acquiescence, aquiescence, acqui-esance) to literature ("What Joseph Lincoln did for Cape Cod, Sarah Orne Jewett did for 1) Florida, 2) Maine, 3) Oregon, 4) Michigan"). But just knowing the usual subjects is far from enough. To test their intelligence, the Point also presents candidates with a whole new bogus language that changes from year to year...
HOWARD Johnson, the roadside restaurant man, is going into the motel business. He has formed a new company to build and franchise motels, plans to include restaurants in some of the units. The first three will be set up in Florida...
...FLORIDA will get a mile of new luxury hotels and apartments as a result of one of the nation's biggest sales of undeveloped land. Real-estate men James S. Hunt and Stephen A. Calder paid $19.4 million for 2,466 acres along the coastline near Fort Lauderdale, plan to develop the site over a 20-year period...
...guard is Charlie Papalia, also from Watertown High. John Newell, who stood out for Noble and Greenough last season, has started every game at center. He is flanked on the right by Metropoulus. Rounding out the starting line-up at right end is six foot Dick Brickman from Miami, Florida...