History MIA Mover (15.8) 63.1 The economic prosperity of the 1920s set the conditions for a real estate bubble in Florida Miami had an image as a tropical paradise and outside investors across the United States began taking an interest in Miami real estate Due in part to the publicity talents of audacious developers such as Carl G Fisher of Miami Beach famous for purchasing a huge lighted billboard in New York's Times Square proclaiming "It's June in Miami" property prices rose rapidly on speculation and a land and development boom ensued Brokers and dealers speculated wildly in all classes of commodities as well ordering supplies vastly in excess of what was actually needed and even sending shipments to only a general destination with the end result being that railroad freight cars became stranded in the state choking the movement of rail traffic! . . Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work Many journalists and readers of the Herald disagreed with the decision to fire rather than suspend DeFede arguing that it had been made in haste and that the punishment was disproportionate to the offense 528 journalists including about 200 current and former Herald staffers called on the Herald to reinstate DeFede but the paper's management refused to back down the state attorney's office later declined to file charges against the columnist holding that the potential violation was "without a (living) victim or a complainant". .
. . On April 22 1895 Flagler wrote Tuttle a long letter recapping her offer of land to him in exchange for extending his railroad to Miami laying out a city and building a hotel the terms provided that Tuttle would award Flagler a 100-acre (0.4 km2) tract of land for the city to grow Around the same time Flagler wrote a similar letter to William and Mary Brickell who had also verbally agreed to give land during his visit. .
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