Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed of over 600 m.p.h.) and two F8U Crusaders (at plus 45,000 ft., an average speed of 650 m.p.h.) made the first carrier-to-carrier transcontinental flight in history, taking off from Bon Homme Richard at sea near San Diego, landing on Sara 60 miles off northern Florida. Said Ike to one pilot: "You almost got here before you left...
...happy-go-lucky migrant workers in the flimsy canvas-topped truck were a typical grab-bag assortment from among the 12,000 Deep South Negro laborers who annually sweep northward with the spring to range through North Carolina. It was green-bean-picking time, and this Florida-recruited group had spent some three weeks in the state sweating through the day to feed the canneries, bedding down at night like nomads-men, women and children-in a temporary camp near Mount Olive. Now, en route from the camp to the fields at Dunn, they were rocking along nine miles from...
Just as casual, just as relaxed, was U.S. Diplomat Harold Stassen as he strode around London and Paris last week. His job was to negotiate some sort of agreement with the Russians on disarmament, so that A-bombs, H-bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Florida might some day become less necessary. Europe's headlines followed him about in friendly fashion ("OUTLOOK-PEACEFUL"). Even his colleagues in Washington-long put out because of his passion for headlines- were now looking upon him with a less jaundiced eye. Harold Stassen was keeping a tight lip and competently going about negotiations...
Duluth Radio-TV Executive Dalton LeMasurier, 47, and his wife Dorothy, 45, were accustomed to traveling as they pleased, but this junket seemed even better than usual. Flying their own twin-engine Beechcraft, they had left Minnesota for Florida to arrange the return of their 62-ft. cabin cruiser Caprice (which they sailed south last fall), then visited a married daughter in El Paso. In Pasadena they visited their lonesome actor-son Ronald, treated him to a steak dinner. The following day they were homeward bound, leisurely droning the miles northeast across Wyoming's rugged mountains...
TRANS-OCEAN TV will go from Florida to Cuba. FCC okayed American Telephone & Telegraph Co. plan to send U.S. programs to Cuba via "scatter propagation" system, which deflects TV waves off particles high in atmosphere, transmits them over horizon without relays...