Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida got ready for the biggest winter tourist rush in its history. Miami hotels are booked solid to mid-March, and incoming airline traffic is running 20% ahead of the 1956 peak. Altogether, 8,500,000 to 9,000,000 outstaters are planning to flock to Florida in the next twelve months-about 1,000,000 more than in the past year. To house the horde, the sun-blessed state is basking in her greatest building boom. In Miami alone, $75 million is going into new tourist facilities, including four new luxury hotels, nine Cadillac-class motels and 59 apartment...
...spectacular as it is, the tourist boom is just a part-the smaller part-of the statewide business buildup. This year Florida manufacturing will outshine Florida tourism as the No. 1 dollar earner by an estimated $1.5 billion to $1.3 billion. Between the two, Florida's investment in new construction will top $1 billion, the sixth straight yearly record. In the past two years, more than 1,000 manufacturers have built new plants or made major expansions, boosting Florida's manufacturing payroll by 8% v. the national gain...
From all over the country, industries are swarming to Florida's balmy business climate, with the added incentive of no state income tax. Furthermore, Florida's resortlike climate is sure bait for hard-to-get engineers and topflight executives. When starting its West Palm Beach plant, Pratt & Whitney advertised for engineers in Northern newspapers, offered them a choice of jobs in the Midwest, New England, Florida, California. Florida led the other areas combined...
...Force scientists at Cape Canaveral, Florida, announced at 11 p.m. last night that the entire operation had been suspended until further notice. They gave no time or date when they expected to resume the test, but observers at the Institute thought that there would be some word today...
...Oppenheimer case "in light of today's problems." Senate Democrats took up Gardner's theme. Declared Washington's Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson: it would be "entirely proper for the AEC to arrange a rehearing and a reconsideration in light of present circumstances." Chorused Florida's George Smathers: "We must do everything we can to enlist all the brainpower on our side." Said New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy: "Mr. Oppenheimer was indiscreet in many of the things he said, but you have to take...