Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recent example: New York-New Jersey covering the Port of New York's Development. † Three largest oil states: Texas, California, Oklahoma...
Manhattan Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was Exposition Chairman. He is 55, small, white-haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
...walk outside the gates. Virginia's Foxcroft stresses manners and sports, as does the more intellectual Rosemary in Greenwich, Conn. Westover in Middlebury, Conn., insists upon its selectivity. The Masters School at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., is proud of its social standing and religious training. Castilleja School in California is the most famed of Western girls' schools...
...board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried by the Federal Reserve Board and its anti-speculation activities, frightened by untrue rumors of a great Kolster deficit, California operators began to sell Kolster short. This bear movement was strengthened by the Kolster report which showed, indeed, no deficit, but small earnings. It should not be concluded, however, that Kolster radios sold poorly in 1928 or that its 1928 earnings are indicative of a bad 1929. During 1928, Kolster showed...
...first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family. The farm might be in California and it might be in Colorado but I'm going to look first in the Middle West. I am going to be just like all the other farmers...