Word: beached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, train and car, thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens...
...there than ever before, but they stay for shorter periods and spend, less per capita. To handle the increasing numbers of tourists, more hotels (7.064 rooms) have been built in Greater Miami since the war than in all the rest of the U.S. Last week, in the $200.000 Miami Beach house where Harvey Firestone once wintered, building contractors pored over plans to build the city's biggest hotel, the $11 million, 554-room Fontainebleau. on the site...
...most notable development in Florida's tourist business has been the growth of motels. Some of them, like La Coquille. opened last week by Rockefeller Heir Spelman Prentice at Palm Beach, are equipped (and priced) for the Ferrari trade, with swimming pools, air-conditioning and room service. But for miles along the highways there are others with prices more in reach of the man who is still working toward his first million (an average of $15 a day, v. $30 in hotels...
...each of these cinematic clichés appears to be placed in the very faintest of mocking quotation marks. Is it sex on the beach they want? Huston crams the frame so full of Gina fore and Jennifer aft that it looks like a wish-you-were-here postcard from Coney Island. The rifled dispatch case? When the four villains rummage through the Englishman's box, they find nothing but a letter to a minor colonial official and a hot water bottle−and are humiliatingly caught in the act to boot...
...chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid out $7,200 for trips of officials and their guests to the Kentucky Derby...