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...Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed with the idea of building the perfect city on the site of the grapefruit grove. For ten years he slaved as a real estate dealer, accumulating...
With a corps of the best engineers, architects, city planners he could hire, George Merrick built boulevards, parks, canals, fountains, lakes, swimming pools, golf courses, country clubs, hotels, homes, public buildings. Payrolls of Coral Gables Corp. were $200,000 per week and the advertising and publicity departments were each spending $2,000,000 per year. Any visitor with the remotest claim to fame was wined, dined and dunned with the Coral Gables gospel. Even William Jennings Bryan was persuaded to lecture on Coral Gables' bright sun and blue waters. And in one twelve-month period Coral Gables Corp. sold...
Then only 37, George Merrick was no ordinary promoter. He owned Coral Gables Corp. and dominated the municipality of Coral Gables. "I considered it my town," he said simply last week at the SEC hearings. "I founded it and it was dear to my heart...
...practical purposes the city and the corporation were identical. Once the corporation gave the city a $100,000 check for back taxes that was by agreement never cashed. "It was done very commonly," said Mr. Merrick...
...Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.'s meeting in Pittsburgh a young salesman employe-stockholder held the floor for 20 minutes, advocating frequent meetings between employes and executives. "I think that is a mighty fine suggestion," beamed Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson. "I believe we will follow it." President Frank A. Merrick reported orders for the first quarter of $20,100,000, up 57% from the first quarter last year...