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...Into the Muck. "We're going to the boondocks," the boots muttered to each other in the darkness. The column snaked in a northerly direction across Rifle Range Baker toward Ribbon Creek, a murky, treacherous tidal stream that ranges from 100 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep at low tide to 250 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep at high tide. To reach the stream, McKeon had to lead his men across a 100 ft. border of deep black mud carpeted by yard-high swamp grass. He did not hesitate, although he later admitted that he had "never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death in Ribbon Creek | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Calamity Jane died. When Phil was six, his father Ernest, an engineer who had tried mining and farming in South Dakota and Michigan with no luck, took the family to the Florida Everglades to launch an ambitious agricultural experiment for a sugar company. After a dozen years of floods, muck fires, hurricanes, frost and insects, the company wrote off the experiment as a loss and let Manager Graham keep as much of the land as he could pay taxes on. He began dairy farming. During the Depression, Phil took a year away from the University of Florida to drive milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest at Breakfast | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Klystron Tubes & Muck. Like all good Floridians, Roy Collins is proud of Miami Beach; more than most, he is aware of the danger of resting the state's economy too heavily on a vacationland-even in a nation where winter vacations are becoming more and more routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...come from Florida. Good farm land is expanding, notably in the swamps and jungle of the Everglades, where a $250 million drainage and reclamation project is uncovering black muck soil as fertile as anything on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...next Saturday a Cornell squad that had lost to Colgate the week before was coming to Cambridge, and the Crimson was favored. It was thought that the Harvard line could stop some speedy Big Red backs. But in the rain and muck of Soldiers Field Bill DeGraaf and Dick Jackson ran wild over the varsity...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Grid Season Ends on Disappointing Note | 11/23/1955 | See Source »

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