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» Florida manufacturing sales, at $1.5 billion, surpassed tourism sales ($1.3 billion) for the first time.
» Northeast Airlines changed the names of planes serving Florida from “Skylark” to “Sunliner” to generate tourist appeal.
» Tampa produced 11.6% of the total U.S. consumption of cigars.
» A public hearing was set in Tallahassee on the first two industrial safety codes ever proposed for Florida — covering operation of portable electric power tools and material hoists.
» Citizens of Belle Glade had the highest average balances among holders of savings accounts in the state — $3,213.
» The Greater Miami area added 49,500 telephones in 1957, a 64% increase over the previous year.
» “Foreign Steel Floods Florida” ran one headline in Trend’s inaugural issue, on a story reporting how European steelmakers, operating plants rehabbed by the U.S. Marshall Plan, were selling tons of barbed wire, fence wire and reinforcement bars in Florida. A German steelworker at the time received 75 cents an hour compared to the $3 an hour earned by U.S. steelworkers. |
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