Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while a cold wave gripped most of the U. S., Miami Beach and the rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front...
...Rayonier Inc., world's biggest producer of the white, superfine dissolving pulps used by rayon makers for viscose yarn and staple fibre. No urge to fish in landlocked Fernandina harbor or take the sun on its 14-mile beach had taken him to Florida's northernmost resort, now sadly down at the heel. He went to see Rayonier's newest pulp plant for the first time since it went into production early in December. Ahead lay a beckoning market. World War II had opened the possibility of new foreign markets to U. S. rayon makers, already pushing...