Word: eickhoff
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...surroundings, had a decisive influence on its builders. San Francisco needed an airport before it needed a Fair, and the best place for an airport was determined as early as 1931 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Credit for 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...