Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another Vanderbilt tabloid will make its appearance, this time in Miami, Florida...
...Bryan, in Florida, said that he did not intend to attend the meeting but had joined in order to keep in touch with the Society's work. He also averred that it was purely an oversight on his part that the check which he sent the Society was unsigned...
...that one who presumes to be so smart as you do should make such an egregious blunder as that on page 1 of your issue of Dec. 22 in reference to the massacre of the French under John Ribaut by the Spanish under Pedro Menendez on the shores of Florida in 1565. You say that Menendez lined the French up before a firing squad. He did nothing of the kind. He quietly slid a janeta beneath the fifth rib of each. Of course if you don't know history it is just as well to make a stab...
...boom in Florida has apparently far from spent its force. The state is about as large as New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined, and has 20,000,000 acres of untouched fertile soil. The increase in value of all property in the state from 1912 to 1922 is estimated at 162.9%-a record second only to that of North Carolina, with 175.7%. Population of Florida cities has increased swiftly in the last four years. Jacksonville has grown 36%, from 91,000 in 1920 to 125,000 in 1924; Miami 153%, from 29,000 to 75,00; Tampa 93%, from...
...Alterations on the six older capital ships New York, Texas, Florida, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas to blister* them as protection against submarine attack, to strengthen their deck armor against aircraft bombs and plunging fire, to replace their worn-out boilers with modern oil-burning equipment. Total cost...