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...action constitutes no precedent and is no bold departure from other Southern cities, many of which have long since met and solved this situation. Jacksonville, Nashville, Miami, Pensacola and New Orleans have been allowing Negroes on their public courses on specified days. Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Louisville have been allowing Negroes to play on public courses at any time. White and colored are now playing on many baseball diamonds in middle and south Georgia...
...Europe. Some of the tourists stay as farmers or workers, and more would like to. Industry wants to go where workers, in this age of skilled-labor shortage, want to be. Two years ago, when Chemstrand Corp. opened its $88 million nylon plant (largest in the world) at Pensacola, it got 65,000 applications for 3,000 jobs, and most of them came from the hardest-to-get categories, such as chemists and engineers...
...came. There was no family discussion; Mel simply showed up at home one day in a sailor suit. He had enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator No. 1119. At the end of the war he was in Europe...
...United Gas Corp., world's biggest integrated gas system, which will go into the petrochemical field. United Gas and its former parent company, Electric Bond & Share Co., will build a $23 million gas cracking plant near Pensacola, Fla. and National Research will buy a 10% interest in it. At first, United's plant will make only anhydrous ammonia, the new chemical fertilizer that increases crop yields up to 300%. But a 40-man task force of National scientists has been at work for four years developing several new cracking processes that will eventually put United's Florida...
...victory in the college championships will entitle the Crimson to compete Sunday for the International Championships. The four teams entered in the International bracket include Toronto, the Pensacola Wanderers, a U.S. Navy team, and the Bermuda Athletic Association...