Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite "don't travel" pleas by ODT, despite the hoarding of train reservations by ticket scalpers, Florida was swarming with a full 50% more visitors than a year ago and was having its best season since...
...servicemen and shipyard workers on their way home from the night shift-shoved $453,103 at the clerks behind the pari-mutuel windows-twice as much as they bet last New Year's Day. Many of them drove their cars to the track, though the gasoline shortage in Florida is so acute that big trucks operated by the Overseas Transportation Co. to carry food to isolated Key West are unable to get enough gas to keep to their schedules. That afternoon 28,000 cheering football fans jammed the Orange Bowl for the Louisiana State-Texas Aggies game...
...Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for small hotel rooms, $3 to $4 for meals. This hurt: many service wives could not afford to stay near their husbands. Even old Floridians, used to the routine annual outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed...
Last week Jockey Atkinson's custom-made, unrationed boots were in the stirrups of seven winners at Tropical Park. Florida's racing was only three weeks old, Phalean would not be open until late this week, but already he was the season's No. 1 jockey...
Made of a special unbreakable glass, the mirror is now being supplied by the hundred to soldiers, sailors and airmen. Example of its usefulness: a sailor adrift off Florida recently got rescued by signaling to a blimp six miles away...