Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watched big (265 lbs.) Don Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there he was, tearing up the middle of the line, opening holes for the breakneck charges of Miami's Don Bosseler. Said Brown: "I want...
...Florida's booming economy, one of the big postwar problems has been the area's almost complete dependence on oil for fuel and the danger of a shortage of tankers. Last week it looked as if Florida would soon get another important fuel supply-natural gas. In Washington the Federal Power Commission handed down permission for Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison to hook his Coastal Transmission Corp. into Houston Texas Gas & Oil Corp., build a $150 million pipeline system to supply gas everywhere along the fast-growing peninsula...
...deliver it to Houston's Baton Rouge station. In turn, Houston will build a pipeline to carry the gas to a Dade County terminus at Cutler, south of Miami, with 682 miles of lateral spur lines running off the main stem to supply customers in every major Florida market...
...field by pipeliners in 1954 (TIME, June 21, 1954). Murchison and friends managed to get around price-fixing rules because there is no clause in the Natural Gas Act that keeps consumers from buying gas directly from the wells and setting their own prices. Two big Florida utilities, Florida Power & Light and Florida Power Corp., will buy 60% of the pipeline's daily 250 million-cu.-ft. capacity directly from Texas and Louisiana producers, merely pay the pipeline a flat fee for transportation...
...lines figure to gross close to $30 million a year from the transportation and resale of gas. And since Murchison's Coastal Transmission Corp. is owned by his Delhi-Taylor Oil Corp., he should make millions more by supplying a big part of the gas himself. As for Florida's businessmen and consumers, one witness, testifying in behalf of several Florida consumers before the FPC, said that they should save as much as $14.6 million in the first year by substituting...