Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews of three Coast Guard cutters and the destroyer Taylor. The foreign quarter at Ybor City was a bedlam of screeching Latins. Twenty-five thousand civilians, gesticulating madly swarmed out to a vast public enclosure of pavilions illuminated all night with blue & red electric lights. Thus last week did Tampa begin celebrating the golden jubilee of its cigar industry...
...Spanish festival lasted four days. Pedro Mendieta, nephew of Cuba's President, elbowed his way through the brightly-costumed crowds to the pavilions where Tampa's four Latin nightclubs put on shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less...
...Miami the guest of honor was Carpenter Thomas Armour, who grappled for Assassin Guiseppe Zangara's revolver in Bay Front Park two years ago. Price of admission to the ball held at Kealakekua, Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...
Greek sponge divers at Tarpon Springs wrecked the Key West sponge trade. Machinery replaced oldtime cigar makers, and Tampa replaced Key West as a centre of cigar manufacture. American Tobacco Co. moved its Key West plant first to Tampa, then to Trenton, N. J. In 1930. President Hoover decommissioned the naval station in the name of economy. The soldiers moved away, too. Pan American Airways out of Miami took the cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line...
...Tampa merchants reported business had increased...