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...your story Florida, TIME, Feb. 19, you paid nice tribute to Carl Fisher's imagination and to his love of the music of the sand sucker...
...insisted upon dismantling it. Her engineers spent three years blowing up its forts and moles. Britain suggested that the island, inhabited by 2,000 fisher folk, be turned into a bird sanctuary. By 1936, British complaints that Adolf Hitler was refortifying Helgoland, rebuilding its moles, were audible but ineffective. Sand suckers re-dredged the anchorage to accommodate warcraft. Near the southeast foot of the headland was built an air base. Lieut. Colonel Schumacher claimed that his Messerschmitt 110s last week prevented British planes from bombing Helgoland. Britain claimed to have bombed Helgoland as well as Sylt...
Mangrove thickets grew like tangled hair on the thin arm of land which embraced Biscayne Bay. Along came Realtors Carl Fisher and John Collins, shaved the mangroves off, filled the swamps with bay bottom and sand, and turned the arm into Miami Beach...
Secretary Dearborn it was who ordered the building of a fort to protect the distant trading post of "Chikago," gave it his name. From Fort Dearborn marched an unfortunate garrison in 1812, to be annihilated by the Indians on Lake Michigan's sand dunes. Closest Dearborn ever got to the site was probably during the unsuccessful campaign he himself conducted against the British in the same year around the Niagara River in New York...
...WIND, SAND AND STARS-Antoine de Saint Exupéry-Reynal & Hitchcock...