Word: florida
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Unmined Riches. Actually, the gold was there all the time, but Broadwater was one of the few who had the eye to see it in Capital's balance sheet. He had made and lost a fortune in Florida real estate, spent many a lean year ("I saw the time when I couldn't pay my grocery bill") until World War II found him with an interest in the war-rich Tampa Shipbuilding Co. In it, he made a lasting alliance with Florida Industrialist Louis Wolfson, 40, who had made millions from a grab bag of enterprises, ranging from...
...electors from nine Southern states (Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia) might vote for Russell, ignoring the national Democratic nominee. They could throw the presidential election into the House of Representatives, where the Southern Democrats could hope to put over their man,* or at least to make a deal with the Republicans...
Ever since the Tampa Tribune (circ. 105,248) and other Florida dailies began exposing crime and corruption in the state, Governor Fuller Warren has been battling against the papers. He has even threatened one of them with shutting off its sources of state government information. Last week the hard-digging Tribune (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951) uncovered another scandal right under Warren's nose. Checking on a tip, Reporter Clyde Shaffer found that a Negro orange-picker named David Reese had been sitting in a Hernando County jail for 18 months, even though there were no formal charges against...
...Ridge National Laboratory last week, Entomologist R. C. Bushland of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
Screwworm damage costs $15 million year in Texas and about $10 million in Florida, but in spite of the harm they do, the flies are not very numerous. Even in the warmest parts of the country, comparatively few survive the winter. Bushland decided that if he could slow their reproduction he might reduce their population or even wipe them...