Word: alameda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart fourth cousin, Jorge Delano of Santiago. Cousin Jorge is a grandson of sea-roving Paul Delano, the swashbuckling Chilean patriot who helped to break Spain's power on South America's West Coast. Last week Jorge Delano emerged from a garage near Santiago's noisy Alameda de las Delicias to announce a triumph of which all Delanos may well be proud. He had just shot 30,000 feet of sound cinema film, the first 100% Chilean talkie...
...Chileans knew that a secret Fascist Chilean organization existed whose purpose was to uphold the Republican regime of President Alessandri. Even members of the individual cells did not know its full strength. Last week they were out in the open, in uniform, pounding down Santiago's broad Boulevard Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms...
Close to 100,000 commuters cross San Francisco Bay every day between San Francisco and the eastbay cities (Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley). One day most of them will scuttle by rail or motor over the long-promised bridge, for which test-borings are now being made. But currently they pay 21? for the 40-min. trip on one of two boat-&-train ferry systems. In the belief that many commuters would be willing to pay $1.50 to cross...
...five-passenger Sikorsky S-39's. Like any craft on such a route, they must submit to the severest treatment: rapid-fire succession of take-offs & landings, continued splashings of salt water. On the eastbay the new line operates from San Francisco Bay. Airdrome at the edge of Alameda. On the San Francisco side it inherits the circular wooden "landing button" at a pier just north of the clock-towered Ferry Building. The Varney schedule calls for 13 round trips daily. Fare...
...known in the industry, and his experience has not been specially concerned with airmail. He served in the Navy from 1905 to 1929 (chiefly with the bureau of supply & contracts), resigned to go to California for Curtiss-Wright. There he was in charge of the C.W. airports at Glendale, Alameda and San Mateo, and of two flying service bases. Also for a year he was vice president of Maddux Air Lines until it was taken over...