Word: shorefront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, beaches, lakeside parks and streets were awash, strewn with rocks and wreckage. Breakwaters crumbled before the unprecedented autumnal surge. Chicagoans fled through the storm from shorefront homes and hotels. Hundreds of feet of concrete boulevards were crumpled. Waves mounting up 30 feet battered a new government lighthouse. A disrupted disposal plant poured sewage into the lake, made "city water" undrinkable...
Only one cloud dimmed this otherwise clear sky, and this soon blew over. Owners of shorefront property are permitted to acquire title to lowlands in front of their holdings. Some of the interior representatives contended that such title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record...