Word: beaching
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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...
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...
...Melvyn Douglas both turn out humorous performances in Columbia's imitation of the "Thin Man" series. Super-sleuth Douglas in the course of the picture apprehends a bank robber, decoys a skull-crusher, and takes a "desperate criminal,"--middle-aged and bald--on a double date to the beach with Miss Blondell. One of the more slap-stick incidents occurs when the amazing Mr. Williams attempts to disguise himself by donning women's clothes; it is a backneyed device, but good for several belly-laugbs...
...spread from public utilities into the oil business, became as variegated a holding company as the country had ever seen, with assets reckoned (1938) at $1,080,068,703. Meanwhile Mr. Doherty was all over the place. He was director in 123 corporations, owned hotels in Florida (Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, Palm Beach's Biltmore, etc.) and Nassau, operated country clubs, staged golf tournaments to publicize his real estate, organized cooking schools to cash in on his slogan "Cook with Gas," sponsored birth day balls for the President and poliomyelitis...