Word: piney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of paper plans, Florida bloomed last week with concrete results. From the white sands of Miami to the piney woods of the northwest panhandle, new industries formed the base of the new kind of boom...
...there was no explanation of what led Hodge, a World War II and Korea veteran (104 missions, three Jap planes) with 1,000 hours' time in Thunderjets, to fly into the ground. The planes were on a gentle descent when they plowed across the scrub oak and piney woods. Instrument-approach procedure called for them at that point to be at 11,000 ft. Instead, they were at 1,100-which is ground level 25 miles northeast of Atlanta...
Russell won, 357,072 to 281,162, but in such a way as to underline the near-hopelessness of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. His votes came from those parts of Florida that are still the South-from the piney woods, the swamps, the celery plantations and the cattle ranches. The other Florida-the big cities where ex-Northerners live-went for Estes Kefauver, who may have from four to seven of the state's 24 convention votes. Florida showed that Russell is the candidate of the South; outside the South, he has almost no support...