TRAVEL: A Place in the Sun

To Miami Beach, Fla. last week came the biggest horde of vacationers ever seen in a winter resort. The influx swamped the railroads; five extra Christmas-vacation trains put on by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line were still not enough, although three extra trains had been ample last year. Eastern Air Lines stepped up flights to 200 daily, with capacity for moving 13,800 sun seekers a day in and out of Miami, estimated an 18% traffic rise over last year.

The descending horde, pointing to a record 1,750,000 visitors...

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