Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Tech, ranked high among the top ten in polls, had to fight both a muddy field and a tough Florida team, had to settle for a o-o tie. ¶ Princeton, top-heavy favorite to walk off with Ivy League honors, looked less than tigerish against little Lafayette, had to complete a 6y-yd. pass in the last five minutes to pull the game...
Sometimes research leads P. & G. far afield. Long a seller of cellulose (a byproduct of cottonseed crushing) to the chemical and plastics industries, P. & G. recently found the demand far bigger than it could supply. President McElroy's solution was typical. He bought 560.000 acres of pineland in Florida, set up a $35 million plant to produce cellulose from wood pulp, now has his researchers testing ways to use the part of the pine tree not used for cellulose...
...Washington bureau holds the TIME speed record. Members of the bureau covered 46,571 air miles this year, and two staffers traveled faster than sound. The speed dash was done by Bureau Chief Jim Shepley and Pentagon Reporter Clay Blair over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, each riding in a Lockheed F-94C. At 40,000 ft., the pilots went into a power dive. They broke through the sonic barrier, then pulled out of the dive...
...work to keep its summer circulation up by paying $25 to $1,000 every day for "Lucky Bucks" (dollar bills which have the same serial number as those printed in the paper-TIME, Aug. 17). Within a week, everyone from bank presidents to taxi drivers as far away as Florida and California was riffling through his dollar bills looking for Lucky Bucks. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, biggest daily in the U.S. (circ. 2,200,000), eyed the Mirror's stunt coldly. But this week the News, which never admits to following the Mirror on any story...
...toot, on a few hours' notice once rounded up a steer's skull for a banker who wanted to take one back East for an artist friend. One oilman, who had bought thousands of dollars worth of gifts for his family, due back from a Florida trip on Christmas Eve, wasn't satisfied just to have the presents sent out in boxes. He arranged to have all the gifts put in a duplicate of a Neiman's show window, including spotlights and mannequins, in his house, so they would be the first things his family...