Word: fiestas
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...more than last year. Weekly theatre attendance was 81,000,000-compared to 71,000,000 in 1935, 54,000,000 in 1933. Main reasons for the industry's gain were undoubtedly increased prosperity and better pictures. A contributing reason was undoubtedly "Bank Night"-currently a weekly fiesta at 5,000 of the 15,000 active U. S. cinema theatres...
First proposed in 1856, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute...
...poor whites, and the typical crew, made up of a family and friends, cruises from job to job in dilapidated automobiles. They camp in the groves they are picking, put in a ten or eleven hour day, spend evenings singing and dancing, like a siesta at noon, a fiesta every weekend. Threshers, who climb and shake the trees, make from $4 to $6 a day. Gatherers, who pick the nuts up from the ground or off canvas spread under the tree, earn between $1.50 and $3 a day. This year growers will...
...Club's record in the matter of being banned is remarkable; a production has not been stopped since 1920 when "Fiesta" under Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, was closed by personal order of Mayor Nichols...
...filmed, spread themselves out for the technicolor camera like a war-chief's blanket. Historically accurate since there has been little change in the landscape since 1870, Ramona pours its eye-filling opulence through many frames: Ramona's wedding breakfast, the horse race at the Fiesta, Alesandro driving his sheep to San Diego, ploughing in the sun, racing a Palomino pony through a field of wheat...