Word: petersburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent winter circuit, Middlecoff began burning up the links at Harlingen, Tex., where he won the Rio Grande Valley Open. He was second at St. Petersburg, but won the Miami Four-ball (with help from Partner Jim Ferrier) and the Jacksonville Open...
...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...
Graduate students Herbert Dick, of Albuquerque, and C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida, went to New Mexico last summer with the Peabody Museum expedition to locate traces of early American man in the Upper Gila River area. They didn't find what they were looking for. But the two University scientists did stumble across something which has puzzled botanists for four centuries. They discovered the missing link in the corn kingdom-cobs and pieces of corn that are both the oldest and most primitive known to modern...
...Three Southern papers-the Charlotte (N.C.) News, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent -endorsed a Republican candidate for the first time in their history. The independent Milwaukee Journal, which supported Willkie in 1940 and no one in 1944, came out for Dewey...
...coast league pennant with a .398 batting average and was voted the league's most valuable player. To get Joe on the Yankee string, the late Colonel Jake Ruppert paid out $25,000 (plus five other players). When Joe reported to the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg two seasons later, he had been given the biggest buildup ever given a rookie...