Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schedule called for having all copies of TIME'S U.S. edition printed and bound by 8 a.m. Thursday. Wherever planes were available, they were used to carry copies to population centers farthest from the printing plants-to Texas, Florida, Washington, Maine. One American Airlines plane was scheduled to carry 6,700 copies of TIME to Buffalo on a regular flight just after midnight Wednesday; another was chartered to carry 36,000 copies to Dallas, where they would be redistributed by air express to other Texas cities. Because this issue of TIME-136 pages-is one of the largest ever...
...solid is the South? Virginia, whose Democratic Boss Harry Byrd had refused to work for Stevenson, gave Eisenhower an 8:30 lead of 48,000 to 34,000; Richmond, expected to go Republican, gave Eisenhower a big lead (21,866 to 14,314). In Florida, Ike not only led in the big resort cities (full of transplanted Yankees) but ran only slightly behind Stevenson in industrial and thoroughly Democratic Duval County(Jacksonville...
...South, Ike's breakthrough widened. With a third of Florida's votes recorded, Eisenhower was leading by 56%, sweeping through the big cities, rolling up the Gold Coast and whittling the normal Democratic majority in the ham-and-hominy belt of Leon County. In Virginia, with half the.votes counted, the race was already over; Ike was carrying Richmond by more than 2 to 1, carrying Roanoke and Lynchburg by 2 to 1, edging ahead even in rural Cumberland and Powhatan Counties. For the first time since 1928. Virginia was swinging Republican, 111,000 to 88,000. In Maryland...
...addition to Texan Daniel, five Democrats claimed their sure seats: the five: Mississippi's John. C., Stennis, Florida's Spessard L. Holland, Virginia's Harry Byrd, Rhode Island's John O. Pastore, all incumbents, and Representative Albert Gore...
...Whatever happens," he said, "the polls are going to be accused of hedging. But it would be misleading for them to go beyond their data, just as it would be misleading for the weather bureau which is following a hurricane off the Florida coast to predict three days in advance with certainty that it will hit the sea-board...