Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida, as any poolside statistician will confirm, is worth more every minute. Its present boom, five years old and picking up speed by the month, is no crazy-house of lot options. Governor Roy Collins says: "Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture. The ultimate potential of all three has hardly been sighted, but all three must grow and thrive together, or none can survive." The common denominator of the three is the equable and reliable Florida sun, a priceless asset in a nation whose countless blessings do not, in its more populous regions, include a kindly climate...
...Nielsen rating, covering an earlier period, tends to confirm the Trendex findings. It lists only two NBC shows -at fifth and sixth -in the top ten. Almost as painful to NBC was the news that 1) the Colgate Variety Hour, unable to dent CBS's popular Ed Sullivan Show, had asked to be released from its NBC contract, and 2) NBC's Milton Berle (Tues. 8 p.m.) had his stranglehold on that hour broken for the first time when his rating dipped below that of his CBS opposition, Phil Silvers...
...Judge will probably meet with the lawyers within the next few days to confirm or alter the arrangements made yesterday...
Pyne had asked the Council to conduct the survey to confirm his plans for enlargement of present parking space and the possible opening of new facilities in Soldiers Field...
...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...