Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line's president, Eddie Rickenbacker, injured in the first E.A.L. accident, listened from his hospital bed at Atlanta to the radio reports on the search.) That morning, up from Miami, Pilot O'Brien had made a routine stop at West Palm Beach, had headed northwest toward Daytona Beach, knowing he would have to pass through a belt of thunderstorms lying across Florida's width...
...adventurous life was a prisoner of Jesse James, knew the Irish Patriot Sir Roger Casement, Explorer Henry M. Stanley and Missionary David Livingstone, saw his own brother eaten by a crocodile in the Congo and wrote a book about it all (African Drums, 1930); in Daytona Beach, Fla. His last request: that his death be noted in TIME...
They settled at St. Petersburg (up 15% over 1938-39); at snooty Palm Beach and plebeian West Palm Beach (up 20%); at Fort Lauderdale, "fastest growing city in the fastest growing county in Florida," (up 20%); at Daytona Beach, Key West, St. Augustine, Tampa (up 20%). And by uncounted thousands they were diffused in trailer camps, autocamps, hamlets, roadside inns. By April 1, when the winter season wanes and the smaller summer crop begins to bud. the calculators figure that upwards of 3,000,000 will have come and departed, left $365,000,000 in Florida pockets...