Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, not being sure of Pinchot's plans, he favored Brown. When he dropped in to see Pinchot in Washington, on his way to Florida, Mrs. Pinchot, snapped: "You're against Gifford!" Fine promptly returned to Pennsylvania, told Brown he had to go to work for Pinchot. Brown was hurt. "I didn't mean that Pinchot owned you for life," he said. As Fine recalls it: "We both had a tear and I left." Pinchot won with a slim majority of 21,000. Fine's own Luzerne County gave him a majority...
...winter of 1929, when Manning was first officer of the old America, his ship came upon the Italian freighter Florida, wallowing helplessly on her beam ends in the stormy mid-Atlantic with a parted rudder chain. Manning volunteered to take a lifeboat with seven men across a quarter-mile of raging, ice-strewn seas to rescue the Italian crew. The 32 men were saved. On his return to New York, he was given a hero's welcome, a ticker-tape parade and a banquet...
...More & more states are discovering that one answer, where traffic is heavy enough, is to build roads that pay for themselves. Indiana and Illinois have tentatively outlined projects to extend the eastern super-highway route to Chicago; New York is building a 535-mile Manhattan-to-Buffalo throughway; Florida has plans for a 350-mile Jackson-ville-to-Miami speed road. Along with everything else, highway costs have been rising: Ohio's Turnpike will cost $1,300,000 per mile v. a mere $476,000 per mile for Pennsylvania's original mileage. Tolls are rising...
...second TV profile was of Candidate Estes Kefauver, who had just narrowly lost the Florida primary to Georgia's Senator Russell. It made news with Russell's announcement that if the Democratic platform contained a strong civil rights clause he would "repudiate it," and by Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas' strong endorsement of Kefauver as the only way to "clear out the chiselers and fixers who hang around the Washington hotels...
...other producing wells were brought in nearby. Last fortnight the fourth came in on L. G. Crosby's farm. Last week land could not be bought in the area for any price. There is talk that the new pool may reach far into Georgia on the east and Florida on the south, and wildcatters are setting up new rigs to find...