Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Coast's Havana freight traffic is being handled economically through Miami and Port Everglades. Key West's 12,000 inhabitants are virtually stranded. Cessation of railroad service wrecked Key West's fishing industry, disrupted other business, ruined Federal plans for making the city a winter resort. It is estimated that one-half the population will have to be moved when WPA projects cease. There is vague talk that the State of Florida might take over the old right-of- way, use it to build a continuous automobile road down the Keys. Unless it does...
Since President Roosevelt signed the corporate reorganization amendment to the Bankruptcy Act in 1934, Section 77-B has become a highly popular resort for embarrassed U. S. corporations. So many companies have crowded into court that bankruptcy now has its own trade publication, Corporate Reorganizations...
David Frankfurter, a nervous, hollow-eyed young Jew born in Yugoslavia, took the train from Berne last week to the Swiss winter sports resort of Davos. He did not go there to ski, and, though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm...
...scene of the games which were held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928 and Lake Placid in 1932, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was selected two years ago because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German...
...Senator from Nevada continued, "There are only two alternatives for peace. One is adjudication of controversies between nations through the instrumentality of peace treaties. The other is by resort to arms...