Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from such a certainty. For the city and harbor of San Francisco constitute one of the great urban beauties of North America. San Francisco Bay is not only vast-48 miles long, embracing 450 square miles of roadstead-but magnificently visible, cupped by the steeply carved mountains of the coast range. San Francisco rises in clean, pale tiers of buildings on the hilly peninsula between this shining water and the Pacific Ocean...
Pleasuredom. Local precedent for the Fair builders was San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, a glittering tour de jorce by the smartest Beaux-Arts architects of the day. Held to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. it appropriately linked East Coast and West Coast on its board of architects. Tenderly remembered in San Francisco, the Panama-Pacific Exposition had no influence for the good on U. S. architecture...
...self-made architect who got his schooling in offices, Timothy Pflueger is all for "Pacific Architecture" as a reality, believes "it's too damned bad we didn't have the Oriental influence on the coast instead of the European.'' As President of the San Francisco Art Association, he staged, from 1934 to 1937, the hugest. most exotic super-de Mille costume balls in San Francisco's history. For the Federal Building, however, he produced a fine, occidental job of economy, stateliness and rational planning...
...brine deposits have brought stockholders dividends as regularly as Epsom salt brings relief. Last year (ending May 31, 1938) the company netted $3,895,269, approximate average for 1934-38. Never before in a merger, Dow has a good reason for this one: it wants a West Coast branch,* and Great Western offers that as well as exclusive rights to cheap processes of making chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane...
...Hutch," a 200-lb., 6 ft. 2 in. righthander, the sensation of the West Coast last summer, had major-league scouts tripping over one another in the Rainiers' ball park. When he finished the season with 25 games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs...