Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida: Democrat Spessard Holland, 66, ambled to his third term...
Worst plague of Florida cattle is a large bluish fly called the screwworm. The adult female lays eggs on wounds or scratches! and the eggs hatch into maggots that literally eat the victim alive. Screwworm maggots can kill a full-grown steer in less than ten days. But last week, with the enthusiastic approval of cattlemen, planes were scattering millions of live screwworm flies over Florida rangelands...
Tried out in 1954 on the West Indian island of Curaçao, the scheme exterminated the island's flies in less than a year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays...
...Senate seats up for election on Nov. 4, 19 are now held by Republicans, 14 by Democrats. Of the Democratic seats, these eleven seem safe: Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington (Democrat Edmund Muskie unseated Republican Senator Fred Payne in Maine's September election). But Republican incumbents are breathing fairly easy only in four states: Delaware, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio. The tough Senate scraps...
...Louisiana State (6-0)-only unbeaten-untied member of the Top Ten, needed a field goal in the last three minutes to get past Florida...