Word: playground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flagler, over 50 years old, became interested in Florida's east coast. He saw the possibilities of the playground it has since become. Transportation and good hotels were essential to his scheme and he began to provide them. The "Green Road," a narrow-gauge line from Jacksonville to St. Augustine, was his first railroad purchase in Florida, followed shortly by the construction of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels in St. Augustine. From these small beginnings the road reached south 552 mi. to Key West...
...French Line, M. Laval reminded the Chamber, operates not only transatlantic, trans-Mediterranean and Far East services (to French Indo-China) but has pioneered French Morocco as a tourist playground, built in the oases of its deserts a chain of de luxe hotels. With depression striking everywhere, M. Laval found it possible to understand how the French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite...
...stores and offices at nominal cost. All Trans-Lux theatres will have big comfortable chairs, rows far enough apart for patrons to sit with their legs crossed. They will be too well lighted for the operations of leg-pinchers and knee-rubbers, who make the grandest cinema palaces their playground...
...this is so, to what do you attribute the (Continued on p. 8) nation- or world-wide publicity given to Chicago, classing it as murderers' playground and one of the greatest seats of crime? A. R. BALDWIN JR. St. Louis...
Delegates. There were 5,381 delegates registered at the Conference, representing such diverse sociological interests as the American Foundation for the Blind and the Playground & Recreation Association of America, such diverse topics as Children and Educational Publicity. Numerous (313) were the meetings, numerous (471) the speakers. So much was there to hear that the Conference appointed a general consultant, Alexander "Uncle Alec") Johnson of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1897 president of the Conference, 1890-93 general secretary. Puffing on his pipe "Uncle Alec" sat at a desk in the Hotel Statler and told bewildered conferees...