Abstract

And Now the Fruit Fly

This article presents information on the tourism industry in the U.S. Last winter, it seems to be agreed, was the most successful for the tourist industry since the collapse of the boom. In Miami, the crowds and the cars that swarmed on Flagler Street were reminiscent of the summer of 1925. For the first time since those days of get-rich-quick, the stores, the restaurants, and the hotels made money. Proprietors shut up shop and went north in June for their first vacation in four years. Miami Beach is afraid to say it aloud for fear of starting another boom, but real-estate transactions actually provided a fat living for more than one office force. The fruit fly has added another episode to Florida's lessons in discipline. Statisticians declare that nearly three-fourths of all the bearing citrus trees in the State are more or less involved in the infestation.