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Into the office strode handsome, hefty Captain John L. McCrea, the President's Naval aide. He handed the President a sheaf of papers. Franklin Roosevelt read the news: the great Battle of the Coral Sea had begun; the U.S. Navy had already sunk seven Japanese warships...
...secretaries. The trip to the U.S., said Quezon, was made "on, under and over the sea." He landed at San Francisco from a grey Army transport. Riding to the swank Mark Hopkins Hotel in an Army car, Manuel Quezon heard newsboys shout news of the Battle of the Coral...
Left. By the late George Edgar Merrick, Florida land-boom multimillionaire in the '20s, founder of Coral Gables...
After that it was all bad. Somebody stole the milk and drank it all. They prayed for rain. Without water, they were afraid to eat the hardtack and chocolate. They ate seaweed and some of them drank sea water. Once they came within a few yards of a coral island, but the coral was so sharp that they could not wade ashore. Hunger, thirst and the Caribbean sun began to madden and kill them...
Died. George Edgar Merrick, 55, land-boom multimillionaire, founder and developer of Florida's Coral Gables; of heart disease; in Miami. He had been planning to develop modest land holdings into a Utopia for the aged when the boom started; within ten years he and his associates created a city of some 3,000 houses, sold an estimated $150,000,000 worth of land. In 1926 Merrick founded the University of Miami with a gift of $5,000,000 and land. When the boom collapsed, he lost his fortune, retired to a Florida key to run a small fishing...