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[[underline]] Jan 23. [[/underline]] Same anchorage as yesterday; tried to do [[underline]] shopping [[/underline]] in Miami but everything is so congested and shops so crowded that it is [[underline]] almost impossible. [[/underline]] Hired motor car and drove to [[underline]] Coral Gables. [[/underline]] A gigantic real estate development with here and there some beautifully artistic results in old Spanish architecture. An immense hotel with tower called [[underline]] Biltmore [[/underline]] just opened. Inside seems ready and is artistically well planned but outside din of steamrollers, [[underline]] cement machines, plasterers and masons [[/underline]] going on in hectic activity to get ready for the season. They ask [[underline]] $15.00 [[/underline]] per day for a single room and $25 for a double, meals not included. These are [[underline]] lowest prices. [[/underline]]
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Except for some [[underlined]] hayseed [[/underlined]] visitors, there seem to be few guests at present. Means for getting there and back to Miami are scant and slow, unless one drives by motor car. The artistic effect of it all is marred by the [[underline]] ever present real-estate salesman [[/underline]] who accosts visitors everywhere and want to make me rich by gambling on real estate. Visitors are of the average [[underline]] Southwesten or Mid-Western type, Texas, Oklahoma Alabama New Mexico predominating. They are escorted in parties, [[/underline]] in large motor busses, lectured to by real-estate lecturer, and handled around the [[underline]] "Magic City" [[/underline]] and made to hear over and over again how benighted other inhabitants of