Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper's Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup. At Alameda a crowd of 20,000 clustered about a platform on the flat, sandy spit, paid less attention to the speeches than to the Clipper, which floated, its motors idling, a few yards off the ramp. There was little applause when Postmaster Farley arrived, looking glum. There was no applause when Governor Merriam...
Capt. Musick and his men stepped from the ship as jaunty and fresh as if they had just had an overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway...
...Industrial paralysis had struck San Francisco and the eastern side of the bay. Across from San Francisco lies big, busy Oakland and to the north Berkeley, and Richmond. South of Oakland is Alameda. In that area live 1,200,000 people, most of whom lacked transportation or a food supply...
...present mortality is less than 1.5%. Why this is so no authority has ventured to guess. In other respects the spread of the epidemic has been typical. It began in May and apparently has reached its mid-summer peak. It shows lighter incidence in San Francisco (90 cases) and Alameda County (106 cases), where the population has been long urbanized and exposed to the disease, than in Los Angeles County (949 cases) where a large part of the population comes from the rural and unexposed Midwest...
...State Mining Bank to pay $32,000 toward backing his development of Chile's first talkie. As a result Heroine Hilda Sour stars in a plot concerned largely with copper and gold mining in Northern Chile. As many shots as possible were taken in the garage near the Alameda de las Delicias which proved so noisy by day that most of Chile's first talkie had to be made at night...