Word: cisco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirers, including the Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. and a posse of his own relatives, rushed out to shake his hand, kiss him, slap his back. For Fran cisco Sarabia had set a new record of 10 hrs. 48 min. for the Mexico City-New York flight, beating the old record (set by the late Amelia Earhart...
...playbill also offers Warner Baxter in a little affair talled "The Return of the Cisco Kid." This film accomplishes little except to increase the gloom at the Memorial this week...
Already on view are Let Freedom Ring and Stagecoach. In production are Union Pacific, Dodge City and The Return of The Cisco Kid. Projected by the Marx Brothers is an epic entitled Go West, which will aim to end the cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
...relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...
...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...