Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East, and travelling West, enjoyed moderate success with European varieties of elm. It was not until 1919, however, that Cerastomella really caught hold; beetles carried to this country on elm logs to be used for furniture veneer somehow escaped, and carried the fungus to the Elysian Fields of Unius americana. Travelling up the Connecticut River Valley into New England, and westward as far as the Mississippi, the beetle-fungus team has outrun its pursuers, cutting a determined swath which pathologists estimate will exterminate most of the genus in another ten or twenty years...
...your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble a sad, self-evident little droplet of knowledge into our sitting room." Further, the Express charged that 50% of the time that ITA allocates to children is now taken up with Americana. "Do they imagine that commercial TV was brought into being here in order to turn our children into little Americans...
...multiply. Not so the whooping crane, tallest (5 ft.) of North American birds. A stately, aloof marsh dweller with white plumage, black wing tips, a cap of bare red skin atop its head and a trumpetlike cry that can be heard two miles away, the whooping crane (Grus Americana) has become for U.S. conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers a symbol of their fight to save rare species from extinction...
Also Free Wieners. Those who could not get into the Americana (booked solid through January) could try "last year's hotel," the $8,000,000, 350-room Eden Roc, or the $14 million, 565-room Fontainebleau with its $200-a-day suites and two swimming pools which dates all the way back to 1954. Even the "old hotels" like the Casablanca (built in 1951) and the Sherry Frontenac (1948), and even the 30-year-old Roney Plaza of J. Myer Schine,* whose room prices are right up in the top $32-to-$42-a-day bracket, were packing them...
...every inch of the commercially available beach front; the rest, about one mile of beach front, is zoned for private estates. To build the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc, waivers had to be secured allowing private-land to be put to commercial use; for its site the Americana had to go six miles north of Lincoln Road-the Beach's main stem-to Bal Harbour, which is, strictly speaking, outside Miami Beach...