Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, train and car, thousands poured into the land of oranges and palms last week as the winter tourist season hit its peak. After a slow start, hotels and motels throughout Florida were filling up. In Miami Beach, guest lists lengthened with the names of Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Arden, Senator John Bricker. Sixty-four miles north, at Palm Beach, the Winston Guests, the Joseph Kennedys and the Duke of Windsor went off to the Polo Ball at the Boca Raton Club, where polo ponies in special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens...
Despite all the fun and frolic, there was some doubt that Florida's tourist business this year will catch up with the record $952 million set in 1952-53. when 5.000,000 tourists crowded into the state. Vacancy signs still swung outside some motels and hotels, and nightclub, owners complained of tightening pursestrings...
Changing Times. With changing times and shifting wealth, Florida's tourist trade has also changed. More "people go there than ever before, but they stay for shorter periods and spend, less per capita. To handle the increasing numbers of tourists, more hotels (7.064 rooms) have been built in Greater Miami since the war than in all the rest of the U.S. Last week, in the $200.000 Miami Beach house where Harvey Firestone once wintered, building contractors pored over plans to build the city's biggest hotel, the $11 million, 554-room Fontainebleau. on the site...
...most notable development in Florida's tourist business has been the growth of motels. Some of them, like La Coquille. opened last week by Rockefeller Heir Spelman Prentice at Palm Beach, are equipped (and priced) for the Ferrari trade, with swimming pools, air-conditioning and room service. But for miles along the highways there are others with prices more in reach of the man who is still working toward his first million (an average of $15 a day, v. $30 in hotels...
...Haitian relations are excellent. ¶ A promising tourist industry had doubled since 1951, bringing Haiti as much cash income ($2,750,000) as sugar did last year...