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...radio importance. In 1922 he founded 50-watt KFI, built it to 50,000 watts. He brought fame to his newer station, KECA, bought in 1929, with his program of symphonic recordings. A spare-time musician himself, he collaborated with Hula-Expert Johnny Noble on a popular tune, Coral Isle...
...generations hardy Chinese fishermen have nosed their little junks into the treacherous South China Sea, headed for the small group of uninhabited coral atolls known as the Paracel Islands. On these reefs, located 300 miles south of the China coast and 250 miles east of French Indo-China (see map, p. 15), they flip over big. basking turtles, collect birds' nests to be shipped to the mainland where they are made into China's famed soups...
Inside are coral gardens, reefs and jutting shelves to protect smaller fish from their predatory neighbors. Already Marine Studios boasts the only porpoises and manta rays in captivity, sawfish, penguins, barracuda, devil fish, turtles, etc. Eventually it hopes to have virtually everything from jellyfish to man-eating sharks...
...mounting millions in profits. These he proceeded to invest in building Florida hotels (one with 13 miles of corridors), towns, railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives and $28,000,000 was the cost of building concrete viaducts across the keys, and in 1912, the year before Flagler died, his trains rumbled into Key West. In 1931 however, the road went into receivership...
...asked Congress for a $112,000,000 reduction in Federal appropriations for road building, as a step toward a balanced budget in 1939. While the President and his party cruised about the Gulf Stream last week, daily messages from a temporary White House in the Miami-Biltmore Hotel at Coral Gables, Fla. kept him informed about the repercussions of his messages in Washington...