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...trains to Florida. Eastern Air Transport was carrying twice as many passengers south as in 1933. In two weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they...
Strangely enough, Tilden does not believe that a man must be at the peak of condition to get the best results. In fact, in his own case the records of his matches show that he has played better when he was not feeling well. As he explains it, he concentrates much better when he is not in the best of health, because he is attempting to finish the match as soon as possible...
...think it is fair to say," Roberts said, "that the material we removed from the graves showed an artistic ability to create designs, carve bone, and work metal that reached the peak of the achievement of primitive American peoples. These people were living at the time of the Spanish invasions and were probably killed when the Spaniards murdered nearly 2,000,000 Panamanians in their search for gold...
...trunks of merchandise. He went to McCall's in 1919, the year its publisher boasted that the "wolf wasn't at McCall's door, it was way inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them to a peak of $14,000,000 in 1930. But neither he nor President Noah was willing to go into American Woolen on salary alone. They made a deal to collect a bonus on all that American Woolen earned over $2,000,000. At the time the company did not mind granting this...
...heaping teaspoonful of salt. Donka Morescu, who had been a star of the silent cinema, was just staging a last comeback. Her beauty was at its fullest bloom, her ambition straining at the traces. Donka was happy. Her lover was Oliver Dent, Hollywood's greatest star, at the peak of his career. Until their work separated them their affair was as smooth as celluloid. While Oliver tried to rest before his next picture, Donka slaved, had little time or inclination for him at the end of her crowded day. But she found time to save an old pal from...