Word: elevator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florida is a fabulous place, a low-lying (max. elev. 325 ft.) peninsula full of paradoxes and contrasts, great banality and great excitement. It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades and the unbelievably soft living of Palm Beach. Every year 2,000,000 visitors drive, ride, sail and fly there to see such divergent sights as the matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the flowerlike flamingos in the infield...
...airplane could fly it in about 2½hr. On numerous occasions in the last 13 years airplanes have alighted on the lake, but until last week every one had to be dismantled and trucked down the mountainside. Reason: the rarefied atmosphere of Lake Tahoe (elev. 6,225 ft.) reduces airplane efficiency 30%.* Last week a Sikorsky amphibian of Varney Speed Lines flew from San Francisco Bay Airdrome to the lake, carrying Pilot Monty Sharp, Owner Walter T. Varney, two airline executives. After discharging his three passengers, Pilot Sharp managed to make the first take-off in history from Lake...