Word: florida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sponges. Increase from 15% to 45% asked on four varieties to protect Florida sponge fishers...
...thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
...passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from the collapse of the Florida boom and the increase in motor traffic...
Bowman-Biltmore. Smaller than the United but considerably more metropolitan is the Bowman-Biltmore chain. Manhattan units are the Commodore, Belmont and Biltmore. Extra-Manhattan units include the Westchester Biltmore, the Sevilla of Havana, the Miami Biltmore in Florida. Head of Bowman-Biltmore is John McEntee Bowman, lover of horses, master of showmanship...
...Lindbergh holds similar advisory positions with the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics (of which he is also a trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...