Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That delectably ballyhooed place, a community by the sea near Palm Beach, Fla., called the Floranada Club, has failed for $6,000,000. Last week, bankruptcy proceedings began against the promoters? the American-British Improvement Corp., of which the president is young James H. R. Cromwell, son of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia and son-in-law of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge of Detroit...
Though it was not the fashionable season, a wealthy Chicagoan last week repaired to a $65,000 home he had lately bought on fancy Palm Inland, just outside Miami, Fla. Though Miami usually welcomes wealthy Chicagoans, this time it was inhospitable. The newspapers printed high headlines announcing the visitor's return. A subpoena was issued for his presence in the county solicitor's office...
Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) D. Humanities
Orlando & Orange County Advertising Club, Orlando, Fla...
Down a sunny street in St. Augustine, Fla., sped an automobile excitedly tooting and towing a fantastic bicycle. Fourteen-foot wings flapped great currents of air on either side of it. Flushed, intense, George White sat optimistically astride his invention. He pedalled furiously to force the wings to a rate of 100 flaps per minute, cast off from the car, rose gracefully in air. Like some prehistoric monster, the ornithopter, wings glistening in sunlight, described a gigantic parabola and came, back to earth. It had traveled eight-tenths of a mile in one minute and 36 seconds (rate...