Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rich men first, then poor men in thankful thousands, flocked to the southeastern U. S. and made it a sanitorium, then a playground. Financial vicissitudes naturally resulted from the influx of people ready to spend money freely for on those dearest objects of life-health and fun. Violent hurricanes came, too, to interrupt the development of a winter paradise. But now the crazy land-booms have subsided. The damage of the latest hurricanes is repaired and future damage provided against more carefully. The visits this year of the country's two leading figures, the outgoing Coolidge and the incoming...
...Balance-of-Trade"-ratio of exports over imports-remained favorable. The export margin amounted, in merchandise, to some $731,000,000-about the same as in the last seven years. Gold exports, also, were heavy in 1928, in contrast to the heavy influx of gold in 1927. This indicated a general fortifying of the buying power of U.S. customers...
...spotless hotel, transports them free to wherever they desire to settle, and both feeds'and lodges them at their destination for a period of ten days. Scarcely surprising, therefore, is the fact that Madrid contains fewer Spaniards than Buenos Aires and Rome fewer Italians. Recently the influx of Italians has been drastically cut down, not by any Argentine restriction, but by the refusal of Signor Benito Mussolini to allow his fellow countrymen to leave home in any considerable numbers...
...Thos. Cook & Son, travel agents, reported an astonishing influx of queries and booking orders by U. S. business agents anxious to follow behind the Hoover party by the earliest possible ships, to explore new markets and capitalize Hoover Goodwill...
What the chances of the team with its influx of young blood will be against the French champions is another matter. The present titleholders are as young as their new antagonists and far more experienced, and they have beaten Tilden, still the greatest American player. Probably at least another year of tournament play will be needed to even up the odds. As for the old-timers, they have the memory of many a brilliant victory to make up for any lapse from prominence...