Word: corals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ryder decided to start up another firm to rival his own. Using $5 million of his own money and a fleet of trucks assembled on credit from Ford, Chrysler and Fruehauf, he launched Jartran (an acronym for James A. Ryder Transportation) in Coral Gables, Fla., under the noses of his former colleagues...
...decades millions of Americans have escaped from steamy freeways and fussy bosses by flying off to the exotic white sands and coral reefs of Hawaii. As fast as the Hawaiians could build high-rise hotels and outrigger canoes, the tide of tourists rose to fill them. Visitors last year spent a stunning $2.6 billion, or 28% of the state's total income...
...worship of gold. It is as if Miamians were playing the final scene of an epic morality play in which, led astray by egocentrism, complacency, and boundless greed, those who dreamed of Miami as the tropical Zion destroyed the dream for themselves and for others. As a Coral Gables schoolteacher said after reading reports of the McDuffie riots, "We've got trouble in paradise, but Miami is no longer paradise...
Police too came under assault. Officer Frank Rossi tried to help a young white woman who was being kicked. "As I tried to reach for my gun, a guy picked up a huge coral rock and slammed it down on my thigh," Rossi said. "They were all kicking me and calling me names. I was down on my back." Rossi struggled into his car and got away as rocks smashed all its windows. Said National Guardsman Art Chambers, who drove a truck into the riot area to bring food to other Guardsmen: "The sniper fire came...
...businesses. The rioters' main targets were white-owned thrift stores, pawnshops, liquor stores, auto parts dealers and chain groceries. Few banks or pharmacies existed in the area. Schools and churches escaped damage, and the homes occupied by blacks looked as untouched as the residences of affluent whites in Coral Gables and Miami Shores...