Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic legislator, his greatest single achievement was the Boulder Canyon Project Act which he turned into an onslaught upon the 'Tower Trust." [His satisfaction soured when the project's name was changed to Hoover Dam.] As a good Californian, he votes for top-notch duties to protect Californian products, seeks to exclude all Filipinos...
...comparison with these, there are several from Mexico, the Grand Canyon and Jamaica, where he distinguishes great differences in the color of objects for a richer result...
Cleaning 9 ft. steel tube that winds across California carrying water into Los Angeles, workmen came to the wilderness at Grapevine Canyon 150 mi. north of Los Angeles where the tube pitches down 900 ft. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and clawing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 ft. into dark and muck, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were...
...Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert are the Tehachapi Mountains, an ugly, arid range. Fortnight ago black clouds gathered over them. Early in the afternoon it began raining. Creek beds that had been white and dry all summer became lashing rivers. Oldtimers in the small towns along the canyon sensed high-water and set out for high ground. Sixty tramps on a freight train which had sided on a culvert grew restive as the sound of rushing water grew into a mighty roar. When the flood broke, a 45-ft. wall of water tore down the creek bed. Houses were...
...Marriage Circle, The Christian, The Dove caused him to be made an executive. In a community founded upon the assumption that to be blatant is to be successful, Paul Bern was a curious exception. He lived quietly in a house secluded from the rest of Hollywood in Benedict Canyon. He was noted not for his affaires with film actresses but for platonic friendships, apparently based on hypersensitive sympathy for the misfortunes of unhappy celebrities. When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little...