Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the average driver tries to cut loose on a crowded highway, he is playing a dangerous game; first prize may be the last. But last week the dodgers and weavers got a break. At Florida's abandoned Flagler Beach Airport, even the local cops turned out to cheer as amateurs and pros whipped through brand-new driving tests devised by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Instead of NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile...
Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers...
...Lions Club of Flagler, Colo. (pop. 793) last week put on the first air show in the town's history. A thousand farmers, small-town businessmen, their wives and children turned out. It was great weather for flying...
...awful," said Charlie Keller, a Flagler farmer who was standing with his wife, his 14-year-old daughter Zenelda, and six-year-old twins Johnny and Josephine. "I saw this plane coming. I hollered. 'Mama, duck!' I dived between two cars. There was an awful roar, and then this loud crash. I got up. looked around. Mama wasn't there. I couldn't see the children either, A short time before the accident. Mama said to me. 'Somebody could get killed.' I remember I said, I guess somebody could get killed, Mama.' " Keller...
That night Flagler counted the gala day's toll: 20 dead, 50 injured. Every family in town could count a member killed or hurt. The toll might have been even worse. Just before the crash, a crowd of children ran from the fatal spot to get a better look at Fred Ruble's sail plane...