Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...
First proposed in 1856, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute...
...Starling's job (he is a Kentucky Governor's colonel ) is the delicate and critical one of being advance man on Presidential trips. He not only examines any room which the President is to enter, but the rooms above and below, all entrances and exits. Every culvert, bridgehead and tunnel through which the President is to pass bears his inspection. His vigilance has often been rewarded. After he for bade President Harding to board an Ohio river boat, the boat sank. A platform he prevented Herbert Hoover from mounting to make a speech collapsed, gutted by termites...