Word: boca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued. Banker Thomas Coleman du Pont, Broker Jesse Lauriston Livermore, Promoter Addison Mizner, and eleven others; for $1,450,000; by 93 investors in the Boca Raton, Fla., development fiasco. The suit alleges that Mr. Mizner created an impression of having $100,000,000 in hand; that the Messrs, du Pont and Livermore allowed their names to be used as "sponsors...
...Keys. Key Largo, Plantation, the Matecumbes, Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...
...Boca Raton. Thomas Coleman du Pont, Jesse Livermore and a few others equally as prominent recently resigned from the directorate of Architect Addison Mizner's 16,000-acre, $40,000,000 project here. Lot buyers owed $21,000,000. Creditors have sought to force a receivership...
...date we have found about 50 new buildings in Chenchomac, Muyel, or Chunyazehe, Xkarel-Chakalol, Paalmul, Ac, and Ocomal. At Muyel which is about 10 miles inland from Boca Pails above Ascension Bay we found a rather fine castillo 54 feet high with a round cupolo on the roof mask panels, door ways with columns and a fine stairway. Also at this site there was built over another temple. The two side doors of the lower temple were filled in but the middle one was left open and was entered by a long tunnel under the stairway...