Word: buena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
...putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor and a grant of $6,250,000 from the Federal Government, a mile-long island was sucked from...
...little Spanish town of Yerba Buena in California had not changed its name to San Francisco (St. Francis) in 1847, it might forever have lacked a colossus. It might also have been spared a long and bitter argument about that project which has involved its creator, Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, with the City Fathers, the Franciscan Order, the Archbishop of San Francisco, the Federal Art Project and, last and most lathered of all, Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Mr. Pegler discovered San Francisco's proposed colossus early this month and slapped it square on the button...
...West Coast has seen for 64 years (TIME, March 14). The storm chased it back past Bakersfield, then past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage of the plane, smashed to bits but unburned. Strewn along the slope were the bodies of the victims. Promised by TWA for Prospector Collier's find...
...Navy has three big oil reserves, one at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, two more in California, in Kern County and in the Buena Vista hills. The two California fields are checkerboarded with Standard Oil holdings. The resolution setting up the fourth big reserve provides that the Attorney General may take action against companies now operating in the tidelands. That, of course, will take time. Standard and its competitors last week continued to take out offshore oil. Frequently in the past year they have got as much as 15,000 barrels...