Word: embarcadero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on San Francisco's famed Embarcadero were unloaded the biggest and best magazine rotary presses ever to appear on the West Coast. When assembled in the prospective Palo Alto plant of Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, the battery will consist of two 64-page, two-color Cottrell presses and two Cottrell-McKee multicolor presses for four-color work, along with electrotyping, drying and binding equipment. Total cost: $250,000.* All of this will start rolling next month to print a magazine which has had to peg its circulation at around 200,000 since 1930 because there were...
...Connor's doubt about the ability of the unemployed, the San Francisco dock strikers, etc. to laugh, is unduly pessimistic. I walked across the Embarcadero in San Francisco last July, while the tear gas guns were popping, and at least 1,250 striking longshoremen were laughing their sides off, apparently because a policeman had fallen off his horse and had shot himself with his own tear...
...across the street from his plant, filled his basement with foodstuffs, bided his time. When the strike hit the city's food supply, he fed his employes in the Chronicle's cooking school on the second floor of his Gothic building, cheered up photographers who returned from the embattled Embarcadero with smashed cameras, had a pat on the back for red-eyed, coughing newshawks who had been through the No-Man's Land of teargas, brickbats, bullets and flying railroad spikes...
Fair, clear and accurate, for the most part, was TIME'S account of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, July 16, p. 12). But it was not "Norton, Lilly's Pier 38" on San Francisco's Embarcadero where the first attempt to open the port was made by the Industrial Association, but rather McCormick Steamship Co.'s Pier...
Next day and for three days thereafter there was peace. The Embarcadero became a No-Man's-Land for strikers. All the steel doors of the docks were flung wide; the Belt Line moved 203 cars; trucks ran back & forth with impunity. Only weapons used by the strikers were chalk and flowers. On the pavement where Sperry and Bordloise had fallen strikers chalked "POLICE MURDER. 2 I. L. A. MEN KILLED, SHOT IN THE BACK" and around the inscription they laid roses and wreaths. A few doors away at the headquarters of the International Longshoremen's Association the bodies...