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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within four years, drowsing California was to grow from 20,000 people (excluding the Indians nobody ever bothered to count) to more than 200,000; some $200 million worth of gold was to be scooped and strained from stream beds and hillsides, and California itself was to enter the Union (in 1850) as the 31st state...
Thousands of Argonauts found bitter disappointment in California; other thousands died without ever getting there. Those who chose the long trip around Cape Horn (best time: 89 days) risked storms and shipwreck; on the land-and-water route via the Isthmus of Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras...
Goodbye to the Dam. In fact, everything is so cream-smooth in New Crete that Poet Venn-Thomas wonders 1) if the magicians, who are vegetarians, wouldn't be better off with a few chunks of red roast beef and 2) why the Goddess ever brought him there...
...renters and who, like all normal humans, want something for nothing. However I am tired of seeing the landlord used as a scapegoat. What justice is there in holding his rents down to pre-inflation levels when he must pay every laborer twice as much for the ever-needed repairs on his property? And what about coal costs--while the administration mollycoddles the miners? Isn't building material higher? Oh, yes, all landlords were given a chance to receive a 15 percent increase by tendering their tenants a lease--very decent of a labor-catering administration that has removed other...
...Chorus climbed to heights of accuracy and cooperation in the Gloria. The "Qui Tollis" was an achievement which is impossible to describe, and the transition without pause from subdued "Quoniam" to the crashing joy of the "Cum Sancto Spritu" was one of the most dramatic moments I have ever heard in music. Though things, got a little out of control in the "Et Resurrexit," the chorus redeemed itself in a powerful and cleanout performance of the "Sanetus...