Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nautical miles from Key West to Havana, Cuba. Travelers had dreamed of it, but Williams had gone so far as to set up a company and order his first ferry-a super deluxe ship to carry 300 autos and 900 passengers per trip across the Straits of Florida in six hours at a cost of about...
...winter Winston Churchill had been troubled by coughs and colds; he badly needed the month or more of sunshine and warmth he would find in Florida. But his absence from Britain-and from the new session of Parliament-had started a rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
These last few months Winnie had been about as happy as any Prime Minister could be who had been turned out to graze. On the whole, life was good, even if it was dull. In Florida he would paint, and perhaps start writing those memoirs...
Over most of the Florida's smart shop and confiteria windows, heavy iron shutters were closed down. In front of the great department stores, Harrod...
Buenos Aires' Calle Florida was no longer the avenue of the gay, the chic and the gallant. It had become the battle place of the republic...